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.
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.Â
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:Â 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.Â
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!Â
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⌝Â
[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