{"id":5039,"date":"2026-01-12T20:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:34:56","slug":"arc-registration-total-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/arc-registration-total-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"ARC Registration Total Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"color: #172b4d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This is the 24th and biggest year in the history of the American Rocketry Challenge (ARC). At the close of registration there were <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">1,047<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #172b4d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">enrolled teams, the largest number in the history of the program, above the previous high of last year\u2019s 1,006 and the 922 from the year before. ARC is <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">NAR\u2019s biggest outreach program and the world\u2019s largest student rocket competition.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"color: #172b4d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This is the list of the currently registered Alabama teams:<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><b>Sponsoring School or Org\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 City<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Thompson High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Alabaster<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Ridgecrest Christian School\u00a0 \u00a0Dothan<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Fairhope High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Fairhope<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Hackleburg High School\u00a0 \u00a0Hackleburg<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Haleyville City Schools\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Haleyville<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Ala School of Cyber Tech and Eng 5 teams Huntsville<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">St. John Paul II 4 teams\u00a0 \u00a0Huntsville<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Bob Jones High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Madison<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">James Clemens High School Madison<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Ala School of Mathematics and Science Mobile<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Mobile Composite Squadron Mobile<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Moody High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Moody<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Lawrence County High School 3 teams Moulton<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Muscle Shoals High School 3 teams Muscle Shoals<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Tharptown High School 2 teams Russellville<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Russellville High School 3 teams Russellville <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">West Morgan High School 2 teams Trinity<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Aptos Narrow, serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Winfield City High School\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Winfield<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #172b4d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The state team number is up one from last year with 33 total teams from 17 schools, 7 with multiple teams. The Huntsville area team number has been consistent. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">All of them are hoping to be one of the 100 teams that wins an invitation to the national finals on May 16, 2026 and gets to compete there for $100,000 in prizes.<a href=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0297a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5042 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0297a-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0297a-190x300.jpg 190w, http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0297a.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0464a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5044 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0464a-133x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0464a-133x300.jpg 133w, http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSC_0464a.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 24th and biggest year in the history of the American Rocketry Challenge (ARC). At the close of registration there were 1,047 enrolled teams, the largest number in the history of the program, above the previous high of last year\u2019s 1,006 and the 922 from the year before. ARC is NAR\u2019s biggest outreach<\/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-5039","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-1jh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039"}],"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=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}