GC schools preparing for TARC-19

Schools across the nation are preparing to send their final qualifying scores for this year’s Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) by April 8, including 62 from Gulf Coast states. This year TARC is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, America’s first moon landing, and the 100th anniversary of primary its primary sponsor, the Aerospace Industries Association. TARC is requiring each team’s rocket to be able to safely carry three eggs to represent the people who were on the spaceship, and each team’s rocket has to reach an altitude of 856 feet, which represents the time the moon landing occurred. Each rocket’s flight time can only last 43-to-46 seconds. Teams will fly their rockets in front of an observer from the National Association of Rocketry (NAR) for an official qualification score by April 8. If the sum of scores from two flights are among the top 101, those teams will be invited to compete for a share of the $100,000 prize package in a national fly-off on May 18 near Washington, D.C. (Source: TARC 03/2019) Gulf Coast/Golden Triangle Notes: There are three teams from two schools in Mississippi: Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science from Columbus and George County High School in Lucedale. Six teams from Barksdale AFB in Louisiana. Thirty teams from across Alabama, including single teams from Fairhope and Mobile. Twenty-three teams from Florida, including Pensacola High School. New Site (Miss.) High School, located about 33 miles NNE of Tupelo, was a Top 3 competitor in the 2009 TARC national competition.