{"id":4132,"date":"2024-05-22T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2024-05-22T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:37:38","slug":"alabama-captures-2024-national-arc-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/alabama-captures-2024-national-arc-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Captures 2024 National ARC Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tharptown High School from Russellville, Alabama, won\u00a0first place<\/a>\u00a0and earned the title of National Champion at the world\u2019s largest rocketry competition, the American Rocketry Challenge, at The Plains, Virginia. Tharptown bested a record-breaking 922 teams that entered the competition at the start of the year and the top 100 teams competing at National Finals on Sunday, May 19, designing, building, and launching a model rocket with greater precision than any other team in the country.<\/p>\n

Tharptown High School students will take home $20,000 and will represent the United States in the International Rocketry Challenge at the Farnborough Air Show, outside London, in July. Muscle Shoals High School came in fifth and won $8500. Huntsville\u2019s John Paul II High School did not make the cut to the second round.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all work together as a team and come together to give input,\u201d said\u00a0Kylee Beard, Tharptown High School\u2019s team captain. \u201cWe have one senior on our team, one sophomore, and the rest of us are juniors, so we\u2019re looking forward to success in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tharptown High School has become a rocketry powerhouse, sending a team to the National Finals six times since the program started in 2018. Tharptown High School has now placed in the top 10 four times, including a second-place finish last year and tenth in 2022. The team is mentored by Andrew Heath, who was the team captain of the Russellville City Schools team that won the International Rocketry Challenge in 2015. Tharptown\u2019s win marks the second Alabama and Russellville National ARC Championship.<\/p>\n

The team\u2019s victory follows months of preparation designing, building, and testing a rocket capable of meeting rigorous mission parameters set by the contest\u2019s sponsors \u2013 the\u00a0Aerospace Industries Association<\/a>\u00a0(AIA),\u00a0National Association of Rocketry<\/a>, and more than 20 industry partners. To qualify for the finals, each team designed, built, and launched a model rocket that safely carried one large hen egg to an altitude of 820 feet, stays airborne for between 43 and 46 seconds, and returns the rocket to the ground safely. At the National Finals, a Friday night coin flip determined that competing teams had to launch the rockets to 850 feet with a flight duration of 43-46 seconds in the first round of competition. The top 24 teams conducted a second launch that was required to reach 800 feet with a flight duration of 43-46 seconds. For the first time in ARC history Saturday was rained out and the launch was held the next day.<\/p>\n

Now in its 22nd year, the American Rocketry Challenge has inspired nearly 95,000 middle and high school students to date to explore education and careers in STEM fields. \u201cTwenty-one years ago, I walked on the same field as these competitors, preparing my home-built rocket for flight,\u201d said\u00a0NASA Astronaut Woody Hoburg present for the launch. \u201cThese competitions are catalysts for innovation, challenging young explorers to collaborate and get their hands dirty building a real flight vehicle. Congratulations to all the National Finalists for their ingenuity, hard work, and perseverance. These skills will serve students for years to come, as they embark on their careers and create technologies to solve the world\u2019s biggest challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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ARC 2024 Alabama Team Final Results<\/p>\n

Place \u00a0 Team\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 City \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Flight 1 Flight 2 Total<\/p>\n

1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tharptown High School\u00a0 \u00a0Russellville\u00a0 AL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1\u00a0 \u00a04<\/p>\n

2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spring Grove\u00a0 School\u00a0 \u00a0 Spring Grove\u00a0 PA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5\u00a0 \u00a0 2\u00a0 7<\/p>\n

3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AIAA Orange County\u00a0 Team 1\u00a0 \u00a0 Irvine\u00a0 CA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7.32\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 6.72\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14.04<\/p>\n

4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Festus High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Festus\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 MO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a013\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 22<\/p>\n

5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Muscle Shoals Team 1\u00a0 Muscle Shoals AL\u00a0 \u00a08.28\u00a0 \u00a015.32\u00a0 23.6<\/p>\n

27\u00a0\u00a0 St. John Paul II\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Huntsville\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 23<\/p>\n

38\u00a0\u00a0 Russellville High School\u00a0 \u00a0Russellville\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 34.4<\/p>\n

55\u00a0\u00a0 Lawrence County High School Moulton\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0AL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 51.64<\/p>\n

70\u00a0\u00a0 Muscle Shoals Team 2\u00a0 \u00a0Muscle Shoals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 73.56<\/p>\n

98\u00a0\u00a0 Thompson High School\u00a0 \u00a0 Alabaster\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 AL\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DNF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tharptown High School from Russellville, Alabama, won\u00a0first place\u00a0and earned the title of National Champion at the world\u2019s largest rocketry competition, the American Rocketry Challenge, at The Plains, Virginia. Tharptown bested a record-breaking 922 teams that entered the competition at the start of the year and the top 100 teams competing at National Finals on Sunday,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tarc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4fyML-14E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4140,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}