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SPRING GROVE ROCKETRY

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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!

Onboard video of competition certification flight!

3/30/2021

This great footage shows a dizzying, but straight, ascent. More importantly it shows no fin flutter for our 3D print fin can, even at the top speed of about 550 feet/s. Some footage of the descent was removed because it spun faster on the way down. Go Aquarius!

NASA SLI Certification Flight Completed!

3/29/2021

The Spring Grove NASA SL team successfully flew their rocket, Aquarius, on a CTI K660 motor on Saturday. The flight was perfectly straight and reached a height of 4253ft which was only 147ft from our target altitude of 4400ft. The flight data will be submitted as our entry into the altitude award competition. One more design review and the team successfully complete NASA SL 2021!

TARC launches continue...

3/25/2021

With the weather improving, TARC practice launches are increasing. We will keep posting photos and videos from launches for the rest of the school year!

Launch livestream Saturday March 27

3/24/2021

We are going to be attending the Red Glare launch this weekend for our NASA SL altitude test. We will be attempting a first ever livestream of the launch. Details on here and on our Twitter at @sg_nasa_sl to follow this week.

Photos of our Virtual Rocket Building Workshop

3/22/2021

In a normal year, we would have a couple hundred elementary and middle school students over to the high school to build rocket kit with our team members. That would not work this year with COVID protocols in place, so the next best thing is a Virtual Rocket Building Workshop. Students signed up and received a kit. They then wet to the page on this website for an instructional video how to build the rocket, Then they had to submit a construction photo and a completion photo of their rockets. Here are some of the entries.

Spring Grove successfully completed their NASA SL Flight Readiness Review!

3/17/2021

Wow! We did it! In a year with the COVID pandemic, schools opened and closed, large snowstorms, team members distance learning or quarantined, through it all we successfully completed the large Readiness reviews. Next we have the final test flight of the rocket with its payload.

Full scale vehicle demonstration flight

3/2/2021

As filled and published by the MDRA photographer on the field, this is a great video of the full scale flight. The rocket featured a ballute instead of a parachute as a drogue and it worked very well.

Rockets being build for our virtual rocket building workshop

3/1/2021

3-6 graders were offered the chance to get a rocket kit to build for our 2021 Virtual Rocket Building workshop. Students were provided with a link to a video tutorial produced by NASA SL team members and the kit. Builders were asked to submit a photo building and a completion photo. Great job Rocket Scientists!