Creekview Middle School Makes TARC Finals
The team from Creekview Middle School in Canton was the only Georgia team among the 101 finalists and 20 alternates to the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) for 2016.
The finals will be held May 14 at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia.
The object of TARC is for a school or non-profit youth team to launch a model rocket, powered by an “F”-power rocket motor, carrying two raw hen’s eggs to 850 feet in altitude, and return the eggs unbroken to the ground in 45 seconds. The score is determined by how close the flight comes to those target times and altitudes. Lower scores are obviously preferred. The cutoff score for making the finals this year was 37.20.
The finalists will each make one flight at the finals; the top twenty-four from the results of those flights will get a second flight. The results of the two flights will be added to determine the winners. The prizes and scholarships to be won total more than $100,000. The winning team will travel to the Farnborough International Air Show in London, courtesy of the Raytheon Company, to compete in the International Rocketry Challenge with teams from France, the United Kingdom and Japan.
Here is a video about last year’s competition:
The name may have to be permanently changed to “The Rain-Shortened Georgia Rockets In The Sky”. GRITS 2016 in Nashville, GA is now in the books. There’s a new page on the GRITS website where you can go for the latest info and to make comments: http://gritslaunch.com/discuss/
You are invited to a “Celebration of Life,”