{"id":5150,"date":"2026-04-06T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:56:05","slug":"five-alabama-arc-teams-make-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/five-alabama-arc-teams-make-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Alabama ARC teams make Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">A record breaking 1,107 teams participated in the 2026 American Rocketry Challenge<\/span> but five state teams made the\u00a0top 100\u00a0 to advance to the National Finals on May 16\u00a0in Manassas, VA, for<span style=\"color: #000000\"> $100,000 in awards and the title of National Champion. The winning team will<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">represent<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">the United States and\u00a0compete\u00a0at<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">the International Rocketry Challenge in July at the Farnborough <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">UK <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">International Airshow 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The teams that made the cut were all from north Alabama: Bob Jones High School, Hackleberg H.S., Muscle Shoals H.S., Russellville H.S., and Tharptown H.S. Three of the schools, Muscle Shoals, Russellville and Tharptown were at the Nats last year with Russellville coming in seventh place. Bob Jones last went to the Finals in 2010 and came in third. Hackleberg placed 16th in 2023. Congratulations to these schools and a nod to the other 28 Alabama teams who built rockets for ARC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The cutoff score for the top 100 was 23.28 which is the total of the two best flights submitted. Last year the break was at 28.6, showing this year was a tighter contest.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0146a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5151 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0146a-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0146a-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0146a.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0152a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5152 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0152a-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0152a-185x300.jpg 185w, http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/DSC_0152a.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record breaking 1,107 teams participated in the 2026 American Rocketry Challenge but five state teams made the\u00a0top 100\u00a0 to advance to the National Finals on May 16\u00a0in Manassas, VA, for $100,000 in awards and the title of National Champion. The winning team will\u00a0represent\u00a0the United States and\u00a0compete\u00a0at\u00a0the International Rocketry Challenge in July at the Farnborough<\/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-5150","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-1l4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150"}],"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=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5155,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hararocketry.org\/hara\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}