​This monster is going to fly once again this weekend at NYPOWER in Geneseo, NY on a CTI M3100! The rocket is over 17ft long, 12" in diameter and 76lbs. Stay tuned, we will broadcast the launch Live on our Facebook channel. (Spring Grove High School Rocket Scientists).  

I am very proud to report that the NASA SLI team made history this weekend in Huntsville, Alabama by hitting their target altitude exactly!  We made it our goal early in the year that we wanted to win the altitude award and they surpassed expectations!  In November, the target altitude for the 27lb and 8ft long rocket carrying the scientific payload would be 4500ft.  We had several practice flights this winter.  On Saturday, they measured temperature, wind speed and based on elevation set the mass of their rocket.  When we went out to the pads, they noticed the pads were angled 5 degrees and they decided to lose some mass which they promptly removed from the nosecone.  The rocket reached 4500ft exactly!  No university in the 23 year history of NASA Student Launch has ever hit the target altitude exactly! 
 
The Battle of the Rockets team this weekend comprised of 4 9th graders and one 8th grader competed in two events against high schools and universities in Culpeper, VA.  The team was outstanding bringing home second in the target altitude event and fourth in the deployable payload event in their first year of high power rocketry competition.  

​Watch the NASA Student Launch live this Saturday, we are not able to broadcast via Facebook Live. You can find it two ways, https://www.facebook.com/NASAStudentLaunch and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYKfAzPEXMQsGtNfBCNa_BA and our launch window begins at Noon eastern time and will run about 45 minutes.

If you would like to support the team, you can pick up one of our patches from a team member or can be picked up from the main office for only $5.  The patch is iron-on and embroidered.

Thank you ResuWrecktion Auto Body at 6605 York Road in Spring Grove!  Great paint job on the NASA SLI rocket.  In less than a month it will be flying in Huntsville, Alabama.

From left to right, Eli, Max, Sage, Dylan, Alex, Wyatt and Haley.

The team is shown with two subscale rockets and their full scale rocket that was previously flown.

On Saturday, Feb 11, the Spring Grove TARC teams launched for the first time this year.  Spring Grove has 15 teams total, 5 from the intermediate school, 5 from the middle school and 5 from the high school.  Below you will see some slow motion video of the flights from multiple teams.

The NASA SLI team successfully launched their full scale rocket in Price, MD on Jan 7.  The prjected altitude was 4500ft and the rocket flew to a height of 4585ft.  The recovered rocket was not damaged during the flight and will fly again in February.  The flight is a requirement of their Flight Readiness Review (FRR) that is due next month. 

The Spring Grove Rocketry team held a Gift Card Bingo on Dec 4 to raise money for the competitions this year.  The team will compete in NASA Student Launch, Battle of the Rockets and The American Rocketry Challenge.  The team is still accepting donations from companies and individuals, just contact Spring Grove Area High School.  Thank you for your support!

​Spring Grove will be hosting a Gift Card Bingo on Sunday December 4. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the high school, email us or respond to this post. There will be 20 games plus specials and jackpots. Regular prizes are a $50 gift card to a number of very popular businesses like Starbucks, Amazon, Lowes, Weis. etc. Extra cards can be purchased at the door, there will be food to purchase, pull tickets, a raffle and 50/50 raffles. A great time will be had by all!

The team will be designing a scientific payload to ride in a high powered rocket to an altitude of 4500ft.  The payload will adjust the angle of of the forward kinards on the rocket to manage height of the rocket.  Please congratulate our team!

If you would like to support our program with nearly 80 students K-12 in National Rocketry competitions such as NASA Student Launch, Battle of the Rockets and The American Rocketry Challenge (TARC).  Please contact me at Spring Grove Area High School at hastingb@sgasd.org.  Corporate donations will be announced via this website, you will be listed on our sponsors page andon Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook.  IF you would like, a logo of you business will be on all of our National competition rockets.  Great advertisement opportunity for pennies on the dollar of other advertising avenues.  Donations of $100 or more will be recognized by the Board of School Directors and you will receive a letter for tax purposes.

Spring Grove was recently selected as one of only 18 high schools to participate in NASA SLI in the country this year!  They are the only school from Pennsylvania participating.  The team will complete many design reviews before traveling to Huntsville, AL in April 2023!