Thu, May 15, 2008
Jacksonville Team Among Top 100 Finalists
The Challenger Center for Space
Science Education and the Jacksonville, FL Challenger Learning
Center from Kirby Smith Middle School will participate in the Team
America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) on Saturday, May 17.
Each year, over 7000 students participate in TARC. The
Challenger Learning Center from Kirby Smith Middle School is one of
the top 100 finalists that will participate in the Team America
Rocketry.
The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) and the National
Rocketry Association (NRA) sponsored this one-time event in 2002 to
celebrate the Centennial of Flight. Due to the great enthusiasm for
this event and the support garnered from the aerospace industry it
prompted both AIA and NRA to hold this event annually.
This year, TARC participants are asked to design and build a
rocket that can reach an altitude of 750 feet with the duration of
the launch lasting no more than 45 seconds and return safely to the
ground, all while carrying a fragile payload of two raw hen
eggs.
Challenger Center for Space Science Education, the national
organization for a network of over 50 regional Learning Centers,
will be supporting the local Florida team and providing astronaut
training activities for all event guests and participating students
from across the United States.
Students will be able to take a ride in the Barany chair, a
spinning chair used to help pilots and astronauts adjust to
disorientation, and to try their hand at tossing a ball using
special glasses that simulates what it might be like to work on the
space station.
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