The Russellville team had a flight that hit the lowest score of the day, but combined with their other flight score settled into seventh place nationally to bring home $2500 in the 2025 finals of the American Rocketry Challenge in Virginia, May 17. Four more of the nine state teams advanced to the second round cut and did fairly well. The returning National Champion team from Tharptown had a respectable finish as did most of the schools. The winning team this year was a Boy Scout troop from New Jersey scoring a total of 31.84, capturing the number one spot in their first trip to the finals.

Congratulations to all these students for their hard work and rocketry accomplishments.

Final Alabama school standings and scores:

Place Prize  T#         Team          City   State      score 1 score 2 total

7  $2,500 25-0003   Russellville HS (Team 2) Russellville AL 44.92 0.2 45.12

Place   T#           Team            City     State       score 1  score 2  total

14   25-0017   Muscle Shoals HS (Team 2) Muscle Shoals AL 5 48.8 53.8

15   25-1850   Tuscumbia City Schools Tuscumbia AL 19.04 36.72 55.76

22   25-0322   Tharptown HS (Team 1) Russellville AL 30.56 47.64 78.2

40   25-1841   Columbia High School   Huntsville AL 10 780.84 790.84

First round only

Place   T#          Team                City     State       score

47   25-0344 Russellville High School (Team 1) Russellville AL 57.32

67   25-0419 Tharptown High School (Team 2) Russellville AL 100.8

69   25-0616 Lawrence County High School Moulton AL 102.2

87   25-0016 Muscle Shoals HS (Team 1) Muscle Shoals AL DQ