RALEIGH, North Carolina USA — A group of Enloe High School students won the national Sixth Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge, or TARC, on Saturday, beating 99 fellow competitors.

According to a written release, the 10-member team faced several middle school and high school teams and rose to the top during the final round of the world's largest rocket competition.  The competition is held in Washington, D.C.
 
“We saw it go up and it looked perfect and it was ideal,” Enloe team Captain Levon Keusseyan said in a written statement.
 
The team received a score of 23.94 to take the title. Each point represents a deviation from altitude and time aloft targets, so the lower the score, the better.
 
According to a press release, the contest is sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry. The contest is designed to encourage students to consider careers in aerospace.
 
The Enloe team will now go to the Farnborough International Airshow and participate in a fly-off against the winners of the UK Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge from Horsforth Secondary School in Yorkshire.
 
Raytheon Company, a major supporter of the competition, is sponsoring the team’s trip as part of the TARC winners’ first prize package for the third year.
 
The winners share a prize pool of more than $60,000 with other top finishers in addition to their sponsored trip to London.
 
Visit http://www.rocketcontest.org/ for a complete list of competition results.

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