2010's Amazin' Team America Event Is Due T' Give Way T' 2011's Rendition This May 14, 2011 It be one o' Aero-TV's favorite shoots from 2010... Ya scallywag! T' Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is an aerospace design and engineerin' event for teams o' US secondary school students (7th through 12th grades) run by t' NARRRRR and t' Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). Well, blow me down! Teams can be sponsored by schools or by non-profit youth organizations such as Scouts, 4-H, or Civil Air Patrol (but nay t' NARRRRR or other rocketry organizations). T' goal o' TARC is t' motivate students t' pursue aerospace as an excitin' career field, arrr, and it is co-sponsored by t' American Association o' Physics Teachers, 4-H, t' Department o' Defense, ya bilge rat, and NASA. Ya scallywag! T' event involves designin' and buildin' a model rocket (2.2 pounds or less, me bucko, usin' NAR-certified model rocket motors) that carries a payload o' 1 Grade A Large egg for a flight duration o' 40 - 45 seconds, and t' an altitude o' exactly 750 feet (measured by an onboard altimeter), ya bilge rat, and that then returns t' egg t' earth uncracked usin' only a 15-inch parachute as a recovery device. Avast, me proud beauty! Onboard timers are allowed; radio-control and pyrotechnic charges are not. Avast! T' first eight Team America Rocketry Challenges, held in 2003 through 2010, arrr, were t' largest model rocket contests ever held. Co-sponsored by t' NARRRRR and t' Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), shiver me timbers, t' eight events together attracted about 5800 high-school teams made up o' a total o' over 55000 students ...