Team America Rocketry Challenge

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:07 pm

Does anyone know what the results of the Team America Rocketry Challege were? I know our school sent a team. This was their first contest and they were ranked like #1 or 2 in the nation, but one of their rockets blew up during a practice run and they ended up not doing very well.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:08 pm

oh yeah i heard about that...yeah im curious to know how that turned out.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:19 pm

Actually, I think our team got DQ'ed b/c their egg broke.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:36 pm

lol...thats sad but funny. it brings back memories of the ms egg drop contest. too bad they took it away and replaced it with the airplane thing

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri May 16, 2003 7:50 am

I just found out that we entered that contest...well my school did. It was pretty cool.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Fri May 16, 2003 9:26 am

How did your school do?

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu May 22, 2003 12:45 pm

They never said, so I am assuming that we didn't win or come close or anything. They did get an award at the end of year awards ceremony for their efforts. I am sure they put a lot of effort into it. I didn't even know until then that they had actually entered the contest.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Thu May 22, 2003 3:46 pm

That's cool. They never really announced how our team did either, but I heard from people who went that it wasn't good, and I got on the website and found out they got disqualified.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu May 22, 2003 4:09 pm

Yes, but at least they entered. It is better than not entering at all.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Thu May 22, 2003 6:09 pm

Definitely. Two more years and I can be part of the rocket team. I can't wait till I'm a senior.

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Thu May 22, 2003 6:50 pm

I wish we had stuff like that. It sounds like so much fun!