American Rocketry Challenge<\/a> national finals on May 14 in The Plains, Virginia.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cI am incredibly proud of the Newport High School team.\nThey garnered hands-on engineering experience and overcame countless technical\nchallenges\u2014just as the engineers throughout our industry do every day\u2014on their\nway to the International Rocketry Challenge. Congratulations to Team Japan for\ntheir first-place finish.\u201d said Aerospace Industries Association President and\nCEO Eric Fanning, which oversees the American Rocketry Challenge. \u201cProviding\nstudents with an immersive platform to collaborate, learn, and put their\nengineering skills to the test is one of AIA\u2019s most invaluable initiatives and\ncritical to inspiring our future STEM leaders.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of the International Rocketry Challenge, teams\nwere required to launch two raw hen eggs to 835 feet and return it to earth\nsafely within 41 to 44 seconds. In addition to the rocket launches, students\nare tasked with delivering a presentation about their rocket design and lessons\nlearned to a panel of industry experts. Rocket flights are worth 60% of a\nteam\u2019s overall score and the presentation component accounts for 40% of the\ntotal score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the 15th year that Raytheon Technologies has\nsponsored Team USA, enabling the teams to attend an international air show and\ncompete in the International Rocketry Challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCongratulations to all of this year\u2019s International\nRocketry Challenge competitors, including the students of Newport High School\nwho represented the United States,\u201d said Greg Hayes, Chairman and CEO of\nRaytheon Technologies. \u201cSolving our customers\u2019 toughest challenges is\nfoundational to our mission at Raytheon Technologies, and these students, with\ntheir incredible ability to collaboratively innovate, are exactly what we need\nin our future leaders as we look to create a safer, more connected world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The International Rocketry Challenge is the final\ncompetition of four distinct rocketry challenges held annually around the\nglobe: American Rocketry Challenge sponsored by the Aerospace Industries\nAssociation (AIA) and the National Association of Rocketry (NAR); the UK Youth\nRocketry Challenge (UKROC) sponsored by ADS; the French Rocketry Challenge\nsponsored by Groupement des Industries Francaises Aeronautiques et Spatiales\n(GIFAS), the French aerospace industries association, and Planete Sciences; and\nthe Japanese Rocketry Challenge, sponsored by the Society of Japanese Aerospace\nCompanies (SJAC) and the Japan Association of Rocketry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A 10-student team from Newport High School in Bellevue, WA placed second at the International Rocketry Challenge held at the Farnborough International Airshow outside London. The Washington state team, who were representing the United States, finished behind Team Japan, with France and the United Kingdom placing third and fourth, respectively, in the international competition\u2019s triumphant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace-education","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Intl-Rocketry-2nd-Place-team-Washington-State.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22925,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22922\/revisions\/22925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}