During the NASA SLI progam, there are major milestones where the team musty complete a written document and then a 30min oral presentation via video conference.  The first is the Preliminary Design Review (PDR).  The remaining two are the Critical Design Review (CDR) in January and the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) in March.

Local business donates gift cards that will be used as prizes for our Gift Card Bingo at the York New Salem Fire Company on Dec 8.  The team is currently soliciting local businesses for gift cards or gift certificates to be used at the bingo.

The York New Salem Fire Company is hosting a Gift Card Bingo to benefit the Spring Grove rocketry team on Sunday December 8 at 2pm (doors open at noon).  Tickets are only $20 for 20 regular games.  There will be two additional specials available for purchase at the event.  Tickets are available from team members or by contacting hastingb@sgasd.org  Tickets can be purchased with cash or check made payable to SGASD.  Thank you for supporting our rocket scientists!

Rutters selects the Spring Grove Rocketry Team as a charity for their Rutters Rewards Schools program.  If you are a Rutters VIP member, please go to the Rutters website and login.  Once logged in, click the Rutters Rewards Schools tab.  Select Spring Grove Rocketry Team and click on the "Support Selected Charity" button.  Every time that you use your card during the months of November, December and January, Rutters will make a donation toward our program.  If you are not a VIP member, you can use your card on the Rutters website to resister your card and create a Login.

Currently we have our 3D printer printing more nose cones for the TARC 2020 competition.  We have been printing our nose cones for several years with a few top 10 finishes in the country!

64 teams, comprised of 18 high/middle school and 46 college/university teams, were selected to participate in the NASA Student Launch Initiative (SLI) program for 2020.  The teams will work for 8 months designing, building and flying rockets to meet very specific design parameters. The teams must design a scientific payload that will ride in a rocket to a height of 4000-5500ft.  Along the way, the teams must complete written design reviews and oral presentations following the engineering process required by NASA of all suppliers.  In April 2020, the teams will travel to Huntsville, AL to launch their rockets.

The 2020 NASA SLI full scale rocket was designed to have a transition right before the fin can to reduce drag.  The rocket will go from 4in to 2.2in for the fin can and motor.  The motor will be a CTI K660 which should get the rocket to just over 5000ft!

The photo above shows the 12 team members that have been writing the proposal for NASA Student Launch for the past few weeks.  The proposal is due today.  The team will find out on October 3 if the proposal is accepted and the team is accepted into the NASA SL program this year.

The rocketry team recently received a donation from Rutters as part of their  Rutter Supports Schools program.  Starting Nov 1, log into your VIP Rutters Rewards account and select Spring Grove Rocketry Team to sign up for the next program.  The program lasts 3 months.  Thank you for your continued support!

The Spring Grove NASA SLI team have been writing the proposal for the past two weeks.  The document is looking good as we put finishing touches on it prior to submission.  

The rocket teams of the intermediate school, middle school and the high school start selling Mr. Sticky's cinnamon rolls this week.  Rolls are only $4 and will be delivered fresh on October 17.  The teams need to raise close to $28,000 this year through grants, donations, corporate sponsors and fundraisers such as this one to be nationally competitive.  Please consider ordering a few rolls for breakfast or a yummy snack. Contact hastingb@sgasd.org if you would like to place an order.  Thank you for your support!

A huge thank you to all who stopped by and purchased cotton candy at the football game Friday night to support the rocketry team.  Thank you for your support. We will have more cotton candy this week.  Go Rockets!

A friend of mine from FL, Chris, took these amazing shots of the second launch at TARC Nationals of the  Spring Grove Area Intermediate School team that placed 9th overall at the competition.  Great job Rocket Scientists!

After the top 102 teams were announced, the Spring Grove team held practice launches, built an additional rocket, painted their rockets, was featured in a local newspaper and in general was prepping for Nationals.  On Monday, the week before Nationals, this happened.  Turn up your volume to hear the altimeter beep out 856 ft, the exact height wanted for the launch at the finals.  The team was ready!