Northwest high School, shiver me timbers, Fort Worth, TX - participatin' in t' 2009-2010 NASA Student Launch Initiative (NASA-SLI) program. Aye aye! Teams from 13 high schools across t' country participate in this program t' design, build, and launch a rocket carryin' a scientific payload t' one mile (5280 feet), and return it safely. Arrr! Teams must fly a half-scale engineerin' model as part o' t' design process. this be t' first flight o' our engineerin' model on Jan 16, 2010 at t' DARS (Dallas Area Rocket Society) launch in Frisco, arrr, TX. Well, blow me down! For more information on our NASA-SLI team see www.texanengineering.org .