ROCKET STUDENTS CAN SHOOT FOR $60,000 IN PRIZES.Byline: Daily News Teams interested in taking part in the world's largest rocket contest for students in middle and high schools can start their efforts by downloading the application for the Team America Rocketry Challenge The Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is an annual American model rocketry competition for students in grades 7 to 12 sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry. from www.rocketcontest.org. The first 750 teams to submit an application package postmarked on or before Nov. 15 will be allowed to compete in the 2006 event. Winners will share $60,000 in cash and savings bonds. Successful teams may also go on to take part in NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. advanced rocketry rock·et·ry n. The science and technology of rocket design, construction, and flight. rocketry Noun the science and technology of the design and operation of rockets programs. About 10,000 students participated in the last contest, which a team from the Dakota County 4-H Federation in Minnesota won in May. Thirty-nine member companies in the Aerospace Industries Association are financing the contest, co-sponsored by the National Association of Rocketry The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) is the governing body for the sport/hobby of model rocketry in the United States. It was established in 1957 by Orville Carlisle and G. Harry Stine. It is the oldest and largest model rocketry governing body in the world. , the Defense Department and NASA. Student teams, representing schools or nonprofit educational groups, must design, build and fly the rockets themselves. Rules covering the 2006 contest will require the team to launch the rocket at least 800 feet in the air and keep it aloft for 45 seconds. As in the past, the rockets will carry a raw egg that must return unbroken. This will be the fourth annual competition and first in which elevation and time are factors. Teams will have until April 9 to qualify for the final round of competition, scheduled for May 20 at Great Meadow in The Plains, Va. The registration fee is $110. Founded in 1919, the Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military and business aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles
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