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Spring Grove Area Middle School Places First in Target Altitude and Second in Deployable Payload at the Battle of the Rockets! 4/6/25

SPring Grove Middle School Places Second in the Country at The American Rocketry Challenge!

SPRING GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is NASA Student launch altitude champions! Makes history with spot on 4500ft launch in Huntsville (2023)!

Battle of the Rockets 2022 and 2019 Mars Rover event Champions!

High school TARC team places 25th in the country!

NASA SL 2015 NATIONAL ALTITUDE CHAMPIONS

Battle of the rockets 2019 target altitude champions!

9th place in TARC 2019!

Rover Rocket launching for the second time

3/28/2018

In March, the Rover Rocket launched successfully for the second time to a height of 1069ft. The Mars Rover Rocket is a partnership between Spring Grove Area High School and Dover Area High School. Spring Grove built the rocket and Dover built the rover. The team is building the system for the Battle of the Rockets.

Rutters Rewards Schools -please sign up to help team

3/27/2018

Rutters has accepted Spring Grove Rocket Scientists as a supported charity as part of their Rutters Rewards Schools program. If you have a Rutters Rewards card, please register it and become a VIP program member on their store website. Once you are a VIP Rewards member, go to the Rutters website, click on "Rewards", login, click on "Rutters Rewards Schools" on the far right, scroll down and click on "Spring Grove Rocket Scientists" and then "Support Selected Charity" at the bottom of the page. Once you go through this process, we will earn a donation from Rutters every time you use your rewards card to make a purchase at Rutters. Last year we earned $500 from the donations.

You can also use the Rutters app to select Spring Grove Rocket Scientists as your selected charity

Video of Rover Rocket preparation for launch

3/26/2018

Click on the button below to watch the video about the preparation of the Mars Rover rocket during the March MDRA rocket launch.

Rocket Preparation video

Sounding rocket takes off!

3/23/2018

A couple great shots of our sounding rocket taking off at ESL 236.

Rocket launch in Price, MD

3/19/2018

The greater than 200lb Higgs Farm rocket flew again this weekend for the eastern shore launch 236 of the Maryland Delaware Rocketry Association (MDRA). It was a beautiful flight on an M6400.

Spring Grove Battle of the Rockets team leads rocketry presentation at Paradise Elementary!

3/16/2018

Part of our rocketry program at Spring Grove Area High School is promoting STEM in elementary, middle and intermediate schools. Earlier this year we visited Indian Rock Elementary, and later we have visits planned at New Salem and Spring Grove Elementary Schools. We are still scheduling for interested schools this spring.

Paint Night a big success!

3/15/2018

The spring Paint Night was a huge success. Thank you for all who attended to help the team. If you are still interested in helping, donations are being accepted through Paypal using the blue button to the right.-->

Preparing for launch!

3/13/2018

The Battle of the Rockets teams are preparing for their launch this weekend in Price, MD. The launch will be at Higgs Farm where the Maryland Delaware Rocketry Association (MDRA) has its monthly launches in the winter. The launch is both Saturday and Sunday and is open to the public. The launch site is at
250 Ell Downes Road
Church Hill, MD 21640
Field GPS coordinates:
N 39 deg 4.7125 min – W 75 deg 52.58075 min

Paint Night this Wednesday!

3/12/2018

The spring Paint Night is this Wednesday starting at 6pm in the high school cafeteria. There is no deadline for registrations. You may drop off your registration form at the high school, submit via the Paypal button on the right and walk-ins are welcome. Paint this beautiful spring scene on wood and enjoy the conversation with friends, family, co-workers in a fun and relaxing atmosphere. Snacks and beverages will be available by donation. Paint Night will benefit the rocketry team at the high school including the Battle of the Rockets and Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC).

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Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) continues

3/8/2018

Teams are completing practice and qualification flights for Team America Rocketry Challege (TARC) now through the end of the month. Each team needs to submit a minimum of 2 scored flights. By the second week in April the top 100 teams will be notified and will start preparing for TARC Nationals.

First look at the Mars Rover

3/7/2018

The Treaded Automated Navigational Kit (TANK) is revealed for the first time. The TANK was built by Dover Area High School students to be deployed by Spring Grove's mamoth Mars Rover rocket at the Battle of the Rockets this April in Culpeper, VA. The Mars Rover rocket flew for the first time in February and will fly for the first time with the TANK at the March 17 launch at Maryland Delaware Rocket Association's (MDRA) monthly launch. The rocket has to take the TANK to a height of over 1000ft before deploying it. When it lands, the TANK must drop markers at specific locations along a pre-programmed route.

Spring Grove alumnus forms first ever York College NASA USLI team

3/6/2018

Spring Grove alumnus Kyle Abrahims formed a York College NASA USLI team this year. The team will compete against the heavyweights of MIT, Columbia, Cornell, Naval Academy and other very prestegious universities in the challenge this April in Huntsville, AL. Push the button below to play the news segment from Fox 43 news.

Play York College news segment

Another video from the Feb launch

3/5/2018

Physics Olympics team finishes 2nd overall at Dallastown HS

3/2/2018

At the 26th annual Physics Olympics where teams from all over the county compete in 10 different Physics related events. The team placed 2nd overall for the third year in a row. There was then a "passing of the guard" as it were and a knighting ceremony where the outgoing senior team captain knights an underclassman to carry on the tradition next year.

More photos from the Feb launch at MDRA

3/1/2018