OLYMPIA

AEROSPACE

CLUB


Sponsored by the Olympic Flight Museum

We are a team of over 170 6th to 12th grade students from Olympia, Washington, who are interested in aerospace. Our mission is to empower and inspire students to pursue a career in STEM, which we do through designing, building, and flying high-performing model rockets, inviting guest speakers from NASA and the University of Washington, and competing in The American Rocketry Challenge (the largest model rocketry competition in the world). Our club is often the first place many students experience rocketry and the fundamentals of aerospace engineering.

176

Total Members 


$13K

Funds Raised

10

TARC Teams

80+

Total Launches

It's not rocket science...  except it is

With the Aerospace Club, rocket science doesn’t have to be hard. It can be a fun, exciting, and educational experience. Sure, there are challenges, but nothing a team of bright students can’t solve! Even though our students aren’t sending missions to the moon (yet), our model rockets teach students all the fundamentals that real aerospace engineers use on a daily basis, such as aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, simulation, mathematics, and more. 

Our club revolves around competing in The American Rocketry Challenge (TARC), which is an annual competition in the United States that engages students in the exciting field of aerospace engineering and rocketry. Students design, build, test, and redesign a model rocket to meet specific altitude, timing, and other rocketry requirements, all while carrying and keeping a raw egg intact!

The 2024 American Rocketry Challenge Teams from Olympia High School (OHS), NOVA Middle School, and Washington Middle School (WMS)

OHS Team Skyward

Team Members: Kevin, Bardia, Nicholas, Cassius, Zach, Sudish, Graham, Maneet

OHS Team Zephrus

Team Members:  Oscar, Aarav, Steve, Grace, Ren, Sebastian, Ashwin, Will, Joshi

OHS Team iRocket

Team Members: Austin, Ganesh, Sanjay, Rayhan, Gurdit, Jackson

NOVA Team Honeybuns

Team Members: Keenan, Reecca, Partosz, Lucy, Logan, Nico, AJ, Albin

NOVA Team Rocket

Team Members: Case, Eliot, Patrik, Jack, Josh, Andrew, Lottie

NOVA Team Yolked

Team Members: Carlos, Nijel, Parker, Andrew, Marek, Mark, James, Ella Emily

WMS Team Wing 9

Team Members: Kristin, Molly, Julie, Ella, Lydia, Sieke, Terra, Cara, Allison

WMS Team Rocket Corgies

Team Members: Thurston, James, Hudson, Dasiell, Tom, Clayton, Myers, Cooper, Xavier, Emerson

WMS Team Rocket Riders

Team Members: Landon, Wayne, Jack, James, Rogue, Evan, John, Bentley, Graham, Jacob, Nathan

WMS Team Skybeam

Team Members: Jayden, Anderson, Ted, Paxton, Josie, Wesam, Will

A busy build day for the rec team!

The Recreational Team

We recognize that not everybody is ready to commit to an intensive rocket competition and simply desire to “get a feel” for rocketry and aerospace as a whole. 

Thus, the remainder of our members compose the Recreational team, where students watch launches and come and go for every week to build model rocket kits for the sake of enjoyment and exposure. All for free, of course! 

LP Brown Elementary School Outreach

We have also been invited to host a rocketry event at LP Brown Elementary School, in which we taught students how to build paper stomp rockets and demonstrated one of our larger rockets! We hope this event will inspire these students to continue exploring aerospace as they move into middle and high school!

⌜Online Recognition⌝ 

[COMING SOON: PNAA Newsletter Feature, The Olympus student newspaper feature, & Olympia School District ]

Club Productions


2023 Club Announcement Video

2023 First Launch Announcement

2024 TARC Marketing Competiton Video

Recreational Team Event Announcement

Stomp Rocket Tutorial (For use at outreach events)

Meet the Leadership Team!

Top: Austin Arvidson (TARC Captain), Oscar Terrell (TARC Captain), Srivikaat Ravi (Secretary), Will Daily, Neta Keren, Jackson Keller (TARC Captain)

Bottom: Grace Hong (VP), Rayhan Shairus (Media), Bardia Javidi (Treasurer), Kevin Shen (President & Founder), Aarav Verma (VP- Competitive), Cassius Morton (Social Media Manager)

Not pictured: Ganesh Pathi (Communications), Erika Hedegard (Club Advisor)

Photo taken by Izayah Qiu

Welcome & Informational Slideshow

First Meeting (new template)

Photo Gallery