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July 2012 Articles
Model Rocketry Demonstrations For School Kids
Twin Falls, Idaho (KMVT-TV) - Human beings have dreamed about flying like the birds since the beginning of time. But the next best thing is building something that really flies. More...
kmvt.com
Rocket Launches are High-flying Family Fun
The average age for the board of directors of the Blue Mountain Rocketeers model rocketry club is 12.25 years old. More...
tri-cityherald.com
Going Above and Beyond
FIL-AM Shella Condino's philosophy in teaching is similar to how she lives her life: Dream big, work hard and be the best that you can be, because as she says: "Dreams really do come true." More...
asianjournal.com
Montgomery Township Board Approves Scout Rocket Festival
An annual Cub and Boy Scout tradition has been granted its 2012 approval by Montgomery Township's supervisors. More...
thereporteronline.com
Rockets Away
University-Pueblo, in its partnership with the Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation, has scheduled a week of professional development for preK-12 teachers in June. More...
pueblochieftain.co.newsmemory.com
June 2012 Articles
Student Rocket Contest Brings Diverse Talent to STEM Pipeline
With diverse range of backgrounds and interests, 100 teams will compete in tenth anniversary Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) national finals. More...
Thomasnet.com
Lakewood's Harding Middle School 'Rocket Boys' Seek Sponsors to go to Finals in Washington D.C.
The 'Rocket Boys' started this journey at the beginning of the school year by designing, building, testing and launching their rocket which could not exceed 23 ounces at liftoff hoping to make the finals. More...
delmarvanow.com
Manchester Youth Rocket Team Qualifies For 2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals
The rocketry team consisting of 7th to 10th graders from the youth group at the First Baptist Church of Manchester was announced as a finalist for the prestigious Team America Rocketry Challenge National Finals on April 6th. More...
Patch
InTech Student Group to Compete at National Rocketry Competition
One of 674 teams from around the country (and one of four from InTech) to compete in the 10th annual Team America Rocketry Challenge, Team 13056 learned in April that it had qualified for the national finals. More...
The Herald Journal
April 2012 Articles
San Luis Students Shoot for Berth in National Model Rocket Competition
A passion for science and knack for problem-solving has led five San Luis youths to seek a berth in a national model rocketry competition. More...
yumasun.com
Rocketry Team Aims for a Mile-High Rocket Launch at Alabama Competition
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln rocketry team's recently finished 10-foot-tall rocket will launch at a collegiate competition on April 20 in Huntsville, Ala. More...
Daily Nebraskan
Arbor Academy Students Launch Rockets
North County students launched model rockets, attended a robotics competition and saw a "science fashion show" on Saturday at the Cal State San Marcos event Super Stem Saturday. More...
North County Times
Blast Off! Dover Students Send Rockets Aloft as Part of Lesson About Space and Engineering
One by one, over one-hundred rockets were launched into the air on Wednesday afternoon at Garrison Elementary School, landing around the school yard. More...
fosters.com
Students Apply Rocket Science
If you were anywhere near the Morgan County High School (MCHS) football field Saturday and heard all the clatter, you might have been wondering whether or not the sky was falling. More... Morgan County Citizen
February 2012 Articles
Rocketeers Aiming for the Skies
The Rocketeers are a sport model rocketry club formed about a year and a half ago by Bill Leyrer, an instructor at Red River Technology Center, with a two-fold mission for the organization. More...
The Duncan Banner
Student Teams Take Up NASA Rocket Launch Challenge
More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools and universities across the country will show off their rocketeering skills during a NASA contest in April. More...
space.com
Engineering: The Abridged Lesson
MUSCATINE, Iowa - Nineteen students from both sides of the Mississippi River spent Saturday morning building paper bridges destined to be crushed. More...
The Muscatine Journal
3... 2... 1... Intersession Liftoff
When launching a rocket, don't fire the ejection charge too soon after thrust phase termination. Why? Well, imagine parallel parking at 50 miles an hour, or slamming on bike brakes going full speed downhill. Things could get messy. More...
Patch
January 2012 Articles
About SARA
SARA is the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) section 545, formed in 1994 for those in Southern Arizona (e.g. Tucson and the rest of the state south of the Gila River). More...
Southern Arizona Rocketry Association
Model Rocket Enthusiasts Share Expertise with Youth
Model rocketry isn't just about watching rockets blast off. It's also about motors, fuel, Newton seconds, gravity, even Sputnik. More...
gazette.com
Shakopee Junior High School Named "Model School"
Shakopee Junior High School is celebrating a recent award that comes with national honors. Project Lead the Way, a national curriculum that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math, named the school a "Model School." More...
Patch
Barr Students Launch Rockets for Educational Fun
It was under 40 degrees and the winds picked up to over 15 mph, but that didn't stop the Barr Middle School 6-graders from having a fun time launching their rockets. Two sixth grade classes made rockets in their technology class and on Dec. 1, Teacher Vinny Garrison brought them to the Nanuet Outdoor Education Center to test them out. More...
Patch
Rockets Spark Students' Engineering Curiosity
"Getting the kids interested in something that will lead to interest in science and math is fun," said Jack Sprague, DARS president who counted down the blastoffs. "There's nothing that grabs them better than a little fire and smoke." More...
Star Local News
5 Great Gift Ideas for Kids in Concord
It was under 40 degrees and the winds picked up to over 15 mph, but that didn't stop the Barr Middle School 6-graders from having a fun time launching their rockets. Two sixth grade classes made rockets in their technology class and on Dec. 1, Teacher Vinny Garrison brought them to the Nanuet Outdoor Education Center to test them out. More...
Patch
December 2011 Articles
Program Helps Make Math Fun
The project, titled "Rocket Boys Investigation," was based off the movie "October Sky," where the rocket boys were arrested for allegedly setting fire to a woods after they set off a rocket. More...
Greene County Daily World
2012 Team America Rocketry Challenge
Registration is open for the Team America Rocketry Challenge 2012, a national model rocket competition for U.S. students in grades 7-12. Thousands of students compete each year, making TARC the world's largest model rocket contest. More...
spaceref.com
Rocketry is a Blast at Coalwood's October Sky Festival
COALWOOD– A cold October rain didn't stop a few hundred loyal fans of the "Rocket Boy" experience from traveling to Coalwood on Saturday and taking in the sights, sounds and even smells that have grown to define the annual October Sky Festival. More...
hometownlife.com
Shelton Girl Scout Wins National Rocketry Award
This week's Whiz Kid is a Girl Scout Junior who took home top honors in the National Reach for the Stars Rocket Competition. The following information was sent in as a press release by Tiffany Ventura. More...
Patch
November 2011 Articles
Bloom Montessori Preschoolers Send Rockets Soaring
LONGMONT -- Sunday's bright blue sky and light winds provided the perfect backdrop for Bloom Montessori School students to fire off their model rockets from the playground at Sunset Middle School. More...
Longmont Times-Call
Student Rocketeers Wanted for World's Largest Rocket Contest
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Registration for the world's largest student rocket competition is open now through November 30. The Team America Rocketry Challenge will accept up to 1,000 student teams in grades 7-12 from any U.S. school, home school or non-profit youth organization. More...
PR Newswire Association LLC.
Extension Youth Educator Believes in the Power of His Students
John Davis, the Youth Educator for the University of Illinois Extension is in constant motion. That is probably his strength as an educator. He demonstrates what he teaches - that being active is a component to a healthy life. More...
Patch
Dine To Donate To NJHS Rocketry Students
Newark Junior High School Rocketry students are inviting the community to dine at a local restaurant in order to raise funds for their rocketry competition. More...
Patch
October 2011 Articles
Go For Launch
Nine local public school students in the Experience Aviation STEM Academy at UNT Dallas launched three model rockets in front of a cheering crowd of family and university staff, despite the Texas heat. Students assembled and painted the rockets the previous day. More...
North Texas e-News
Rockets to be launched at 'Pasture Blaster'
The Olympic Peninsula Rocketry 4-H Club is filling an 84-acre field off West Uncas Road, off U.S. Highway 101 at Discovery Bay, Friday-Sunday, Aug. 26-28.
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The The Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader
Shakopee Technology Teacher Named Best in the State
Shakopee Junior High School teacher T.J. Hendrickson has been named Minnesota State Technology Education Teacher of the Year by the Minnesota Technical Engineering Education Association. More...
Shakopee Valley News is in Shakopee, MN
September 2011 Articles
Space Camp Rockets Teacher's Enthusiasm For Science
Janelle Wilson developed a love for outer space at a young age, so it's no surprise she was thrilled to attend a space academy program last month at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. More...
The Times, Gainesville, GA
Idyllwild: Astrocamp Soars Beyond Shuttle
A group of Idyllwild students have been given a mission: to save the world. At Astrocamp in Idyllwild, they're told an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth and they must use the skills they've learned, in addition to some space-age tools, to stop it in a simulated space capsule. More...
The Press-Enterprise
Camp Horizons campers love to build and launch rockets. In fact, for the past 27 years, campers at Camp Horizons, which is located at Newark Academy, in Livingston, have been taking Rocketry as an activity. This summer was no different -- it was just as fun! More...
Livingston Patch
August 2011 Articles
Fourth Time A Charm For Shuttle Fan
HOLSTEIN, Iowa — Jim Christensen covered lots of ground for space. As a sixth-grader in Stromsburg, Neb., Christensen took many, many small steps as Neil Armstrong made that "one giant leap for mankind" on the moon in July 1969. More...
Sioux City Journal
Campers Launch Models In Cape Coral
About 40 Lee County YMCA summer day camp members fired 6-inch model rockets nearly 500 feet in the air with the help of members of the Florida Association of Space Modeling Hobbyists and Tripoli Fort Myers. More...
news-press.com
Playing With Science
Young students turned Ulla Muller Elementary School's playground into a science lab Wednesday afternoon, complete with sound-activated robots and soaring rockets. More...
Virgin Islands Daily News
Lincoln County Fair Showcases Local Youths' Work
More than 300 youths from throughout Lincoln County will be exhibiting more than 4,000 exhibits, ranging from art pieces they've created to photos to model rockets to displays about their leadership experiences. Of course, the exhibits will also include animals from cows to chickens to dogs to horses. More...
wausaudailyherald.com
NASA Launches Rocket Carrying Students' Experiments From Facility On Virginia's Eastern Shore
ATLANTIC, Va. – NASA says the launch of a suborbital rocket carrying students' experiments from Virginia's Eastern Shore was a success. More...
Daily Reporter
Lebanon Hosts Rocketry Meet During Weekend
The 53rd annual Meet of the National Association of Rocketry will lift off at the Lebanon Sports Complex beginning Friday and will run until July 29. The national competition will see more than 120 model rocket builders competing to see who can built the highest and best flying rocket. More...
The Western Star
Festival Takes Off In Style
The Festival of Rocketry saw hundreds of enthusiasts gather at the site from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon to launch model and high power rockets into the sky above. More...
Media Group
The Joy Of Model Rocketry
Model rocketry also "takes off" in July. "Some of our biggest buyers are summer camps and continuing education programs. They're interested in teaching the science behind the rockets while the kids of course see them as just plain fun. Truthfully, model rocketry has all the excitement of fireworks while being both safe and legal. And of course the educational aspect is important as well." More...
The New Britain Herald
Some elementary students in Yakima ended a summer of learning science today by launching some of their projects. More...
Morgan Murphy Media
July 2011 Articles
CSUB partners with Lamont School District for NASA Rocketry Camp
June 13, 2011— Summer blasts off today for 200 middle school students in Lamont who are attending the NASA Summer of Innovation Rocketry Camp. The camp is a collaborative project between California State University, Bakersfield and Lamont School District who worked together to receive a $32,500 grant from the Aerospace, Education Research and Operations (AERO)–Institute partnering with NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. More...
Bakersfield News
SLIDESHOW: Robinson Elementary Rocket Day 2011
Jerry Iacona, retired Robinson teacher, began Rocket Day in 1974 when he had his students build and launch model rockets. The tradition has continued, and this year's launch honored retiring superintendent of Hamilton schools Neil Bencivengo and Robinson principal Gary Mattia. More...
mercerspace.com
NASA astronauts visited the construction site of the Mary Rose museum this afternoon to release the Mary Rose flag. More...
aboutmyarea.co.uk
