Ingraham Rocketry

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Our goal is to help students develop skills, interest, and confidence in STEM fields through teamwork and leadership via the safe practicing of rocketry.

We are a student-run group of high schoolers from Ingraham High School. We meet at lunch and sometimes outside of school. The club was started in 2006 with a Chemistry/Physics teacher and small group of high schoolers, and has grown and developed since. We design, build, and fly rockets in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC). In the past, we have also built and flown rockets through NASA's Student Launch Initiative (SLI) program.

05/15/2023

The theme for Ingraham Rocketry's TARC competition this year was resilience. The students got through several setbacks (random left turns! rocket recovered from the river!) and made it to national competition again. The best example was an unfortunate crash last weekend--11 days before departing for Nationals. Within a week, students had laid up a new carbon-fiber tube, fixed the damage, and flown the rocket on test flights.

Next weekend is nationals, and we're all so excited! (Photo is of 4/9 team members)

Seattle-area students flying high again as 6 teams will compete in American Rocketry Challenge

06/10/2021

It's been a long, crazy COVID year, and Ingraham Rocketry is headed for TARC Nationals in Pasco this weekend! Good luck to our students!

Seattle-area students flying high again as 6 teams will compete in American Rocketry Challenge Finals for the world's largest student rocket contest will kick off this weekend with 100 teams competing to become national champion — and six of the teams are from the Seattle area.

04/16/2019

Once again, Ingraham Rocketry missed the TARC finals by one place. So close, and so very far away. And now we start thinking about next year...

01/19/2019

There was a surprise break in the weather forecast for Sunday, so we are launching again! Meet at the auto shop at 9:00, leaving at 9:30, planning to be back at Ingraham at 2:00. AV bay team meets at 8:00 for a few repairs.

01/12/2019

Ingraham Rocketry will be launching at 60 Acres on Sunday. We're getting to the field at about 10:45 and will stay for 2 hours or so.

12/17/2018

Ingraham Rocketry doesn't just build rockets--the students scratch-build all of their parachutes for Team America Rocketry Challenge too!

11/28/2018

Thank you to Blue Origin for the amazing tour on Monday! The students were so excited to see hardware that is headed for space soon!

10/18/2018

Ingraham Rocketry will be flying the TARC testbed rocket on Saturday, testing the on-board controls! Fingers crossed for good flights!

06/01/2018

Ingraham Rocketry had a great Memorial Day weekend of flying. Two students earned high power rocketry certifications, and Project Silver Star flew supersonic twice, to a little over 10,000 feet and a little over 13,000 feet.

Thanks to Eli for the pictures!

04/18/2018

Ingraham Rocketry's Project Silver Star had its shakedown flight on a cloudy afternoon in Mansfield, WA on Sunday. It was powered by 1596 Newton-seconds of Red Lightning goodness to 7,951 feet above ground, and returned safely to earth two minutes later. Everything worked perfectly, so we are on track for a big motor, 12,000 feet, and Mach 1.2 on Memorial Day weekend!