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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!

Rutters Rewards helps Spring Grove Rocketry team

4/30/2019

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 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 Area High School Rocketry Team" 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. This program time will run May 1 - July 31, 2019.

You can also use the Rutters app to select Spring Grove Area High School Rocketry Team as your selected charity.

Sounding rocket launch at the Battle of the Rockets

4/29/2019

The video below is the first scored flight of the Sounding Rocket from the Battle of the Rockets competition. The rocket was sending live telemetry data back to a ground station through the whole flight including wind speed, altitude and GPS coordinates. The team placed 4th overall after overcoming several obstacles including software, hardware and motor challenges. Congratulations rocket scientists!

Mr. Sticky's cinnamon roll sale to benefit the rocketry team

4/23/2019

The Spring Grove rocketry team is selling Mr. Sticky's cinnamon rolls. The rolls are $4 and will be delivered to the high school May 2. Contact [email protected] to place an order that can be picked up at the high school in the afternoon May 2.

Launch video of the tube launched video from Battle of the Rockets

4/22/2019

At the Battle of the Rockets the Spring Grove team had a tube launched rocket to compete in the Target Altitude competition. The video below is a launch to 979ft on a F79 motor when the target altitude was 1001ft. Great flight!

Spring Grove Area School District team advances to TARC Nationals

4/17/2019

A team from Spring Grove has advanced to TARC Nationals. The top 100 teams from across the country will compete May 18 for a chance to win part of $100, 000 in prize money. The rocket has to carry 3 large chicken eggs, go to a height of 856ft and return in 43-46s with the eggs unharmed.

Spring Grove Battle of the Rockets team places fourth in the Sounding Rocket event

4/15/2019

The sounding rocket team launch a rocket to 1717ft which was only 83ft short of the target altitude of 1800ft. The payload was sending telemetry data including wind speed, GPS position and altitude. The team faced many hurdles in the design, construction and launching of the rocket this weekend. We would like to thank Brian Bahn, for his guidance along the way this year.

Spring Grove places first in the Target Altitude event in the Battle of the Rockets

4/14/2019

The target altitude event at the Battle of the Rockets had teams launch a rocket as close as possible to a specific altitude twice out of three scored launches. The target altitude this year was 1001ft. The Spring Grove team had flights of 990ft and 999ft to have a total difference of 13ft feet from the target altitude over both flights. The team placed first ahead of all high school and university teams participating in the event. Congratulations Rocket Scientists!

Spring Grove competes in the Battle of the Rockets competition in Culpeper, VA

4/14/2019

The Battle of the Rockets competition has three different events. The target altitude event, the sounding rocket event, and the rover event.

Spring Grove Area Intermediate School TARC team advances to TARC Nationals!

4/13/2019

The Team America Rocketry Competition (TARC) had over 800 teams compete nationwide to fill the top 102 teams that will compete at TARC Nationals this May. The Spring Grove Intermediate School advanced to Nationals this year, the first year TARC permitted 6th grade students to enter the competition. Congratulations Rocket Scientists!

TARC qualification flight time!

4/1/2019

After months of planning, rain, building, rain, testing, snow, repairing, wind, rebuilding, rain, it is launch time! Only 1 week left before the due date for qualifying scores in TARC. It has been a challenging year, no doubt, but this is the time to fly!