By Ian McClintock - Last Edited March 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM ET
On March 24th, 2025, Exela officially joined the 2026 American Rocketry Challenge in joint effort with a local high school in New Hampshire. The American Rocketry Challenge is an annual American model rocketry competition for students in grades six to 12 sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry. It is also the world’s largest student rocket competition and has engaged over 100,000 middle and high school students in model rocketry. The challenge provides a yearlong opportunity to gain hands-on engineering experience by designing, building, testing, and launching model rockets to meet rigorous requirements.
Preparations for the competition will start during the fall of this year, lasting all the way till March 2026 when the qualifying launches start at CMASS in Amesbury, MA. Over 1,000 schools compete in this challenge a year and the top 100 qualifying go to the finals in Virginia. Once the rules and goals for next year's challenge are released, this page will be updated with all of the necessary information.
If you are interested in competing, click learn more to go to the offical website of the ARC.
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