Competitions

This year the team will compete in the 2025-26 Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition: “Secret Message Challenge”. This year’s challenge tasks the team with controlling the rotation of the rocket during ascent with deliberate control to rotate to the right and left at different times during the flight while collecting video data to decode a secret message on the ground. Both flights are to have a non-commercial data-logging sensor suite and bonus points are awarded for individual certifications and transmitting video data back to a ground station. After the team’s 4 consecutive wins since 2022, they now look to continue this success in 2026.

The team is not entering in IREC this year, but were accepted to the International Rocket Engineering Competition in 2024, the world's largest intercollegiate rocket engineering competition. In 2024, the team entered in the 10k COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) category with the goal of competing in Midland, Texas in June against over 150 teams from around the world. This category of competition challenges teams to build a rocket that will fly as close to 10,000 feet as possible using a commercially available motor.