{"id":4749,"date":"2025-04-16T17:28:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T22:28:36","slug":"nine-alabama-teams-invited-to-arc-2025-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/nine-alabama-teams-invited-to-arc-2025-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Alabama Teams Invited to ARC 2025 Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A record breaking 1,001 teams participated in the 2025 American Rocketry Challenge. Below are the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">nine Alabama teams from six schools <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">(of the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">32 total <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">state <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">teams from<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">20 schools)<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">that made the <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">top 100 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">best scores <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">t<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">o<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> earn an invitation to compete at the National Finals on May 17 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">in Manassas, VA. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">They fly<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">to win $100,000 in prizes and the title of National Champion. The winning team will represent the United States and compete at the International Rocketry Challenge in June at the Paris Air Show.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">Last year only seven teams from the state went, but Tharptown came in first and Muscle Shoals fifth. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Tharptown will be back to defend its national title.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Cutoff score for top 100 was 28.6. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Last year it was 32.12. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Cutoff score for the next twenty alternates was 33.9.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #b42025\"><b>Team Number\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0City\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 1841 Columbia High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Huntsville\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 0616 Lawrence County High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Moulton\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 0016 Muscle Shoals High School (Team 1) Muscle Shoals\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 0017 Muscle Shoals High School (Team 2) Muscle Shoals\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 0344 Russellville High School (Team 2) Russellville\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 0003 Russellville High School (Team 1) Russellville\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 0322 Tharptown High School (Team 1) Russellville\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 0419 Tharptown High School (Team 2) Russellville\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 1850 Tuscumbia City Schools\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Tuscumbia\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"tablepress-76 Copy 1\"><\/a> Also going to the finals that was qualified by HARA is the <span style=\"color: #111111\">25- 1718 <\/span><span style=\"color: #111111\">team from <\/span><span style=\"color: #111111\">Fulton Science Academy, Alpharetta, Georgia, that state&#8217;s only team to make it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record breaking 1,001 teams participated in the 2025 American Rocketry Challenge. Below are the nine Alabama teams from six schools (of the 32 total state teams from 20 schools) that made the top 100 best scores to earn an invitation to compete at the National Finals on May 17 in Manassas, VA. 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