Help me give my students a 3D printer to design rocket parts and enter the 2025 American Rocketry Challenge.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. C.'s classroom raised $1,535
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My Project
Our student Rocket Club needs a 3D printer to take their original designs to the next level. Students will design rocket fins, transition tubes, engine mounts, nose cones, and other materials needed to construct rockets.
The goal is to assemble materials to construct a rocket for the 2025 American Rocketry Challenge.
The rocket must be designed to cradle two eggs and reach an altitude of 790 feet. The design must also be able to safely return to Earth within 41-44 seconds. To create a high quality design that meets these specifications, students will need to create prototypes and test designs through trial and errror along with a flight-simulation computer program. The iterative design process will be made much easier and cheapter with a 3D printer.
Students in the Rocket Club have been building model rockets over the past two years in this student-led, after school club. These students are highly motivated and entreprenuerial. Our school resources are very limited, and the club has already raised funds to buy pre-made rockets and parts. They work as a collaborative team--as engineers do--and have already participated in a number of successful launches. They work closely with a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador who helps guide them each week. This amazing group of students are inspiring and deserve all the support I can give them.
We envision students sharing their new design skills with the larger school community and then investing in an additional 3D printer to be used for modeling, experimentation, and engineering in such courses as physics, astronomy, chemistry, and biology.
This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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