The Challenge
The American Rocketry Challenge
The world’s largest student rocketry competition for grades 6–12. Teams design, build, and fly their own rocket. One flight has to hit the numbers.
What the rocket has to do.
- 800ft
- Qualification Altitude
- 37-40 s
- Flight Time
- 2 eggs · 650 g
- Payload and Mass
The rules
How scoring works
Qualification flights are judged against 800 feet and a 37 to 40 second window. Two raw eggs have to survive the flight, and the rocket cannot weigh more than 650 grams at the rail. At finals the altitude target is secret — somewhere between 775 and 825 feet — so the vehicle has to be adjustable, not lucky.
See it fly
Watch a Launch
Weather can cancel the same morning. Write us before the window if you want to be on the field.