JROTC’s Rocketry program is partnered with the American Rocketry Challenge, the world’s largest rocket competition, with nearly 5,000 students nationwide competing each year. Rocketry gives students the opportunity to design, build, and launch model rockets and provides hands-on experience with solving engineering problems. The goal is to motivate students to consider aerospace as a career field. Co-sponsors include the American Association of Physics Teachers, Estes Industries, the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA. Rocketry competitions involve designing and building a model rocket (650 grams or less in weight, 650 millimeters or more in length using NAR-certified model rocket motors totaling 80 N-sec or less of total impulse) that carries a payload of one Grade A Large egg for a flight duration of 43-46 seconds, and to an altitude of exactly 820 feet (measured by an onboard altimeter), and to return the egg to earth safely by parachute, without cracking it. For more information on Rocketry go to https://rocketcontest.org/