Riverbat Rocketry
a division at SEDS Austin Community College
a division at SEDS Austin Community College
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Help Us Launch the Future: Support Our College Rocketry Team!
We are the SEDS ACC chapter of the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) International Rocketry Organization, a passionate student group dedicated to advancing rocketry, space exploration, and STEM education.
For the past three years, we have been one of two 2-year institutions to ever participate in the International Rocketry Engineering Competition! We started in 2024 with the flight of our MoonShot rocket, where we had a technical failure that destroyed interior electronics. At IREC 2025 however, we came back with SpaceCowboy, which placed 2nd in all of Texas and 32nd worldwide!
This year, our team is working on advancing to the next level of the competition with an SRAD (Student Researched and Developed) two-stage vehicle, allowing students to compete at the highest levels, gain hands-on engineering experience, inspire other community college teams, and continue to be pioneers in aerospace!
The ACC SEDS Rocketry Team is a diverse, professional, and recently established competitor in Collegiate Rocketry. Founded in October 2022, the team's first competition began with 11 members the Summer of 2024. Since then, the team has now grown to over 25 students ranging from physics, engineering, manufacturing technology, biology, and fine arts. Students that have gone through our competition team have moved on to four-year universities including UT-San Antonio, University of Houston, Arizona State University, and Texas A&M University. nearly 40% of our members have also participated in the NASA L'SPACE Program, either in the Mission Concept Academy, National Proposal and Writing Evaluation Experience, and the LEAP Internship. This Professional Development in NASA Systems and Collaboration style have been pivotal in developing the foundation for our program. As a two-year institution, we are passionate about developing students by prioritizing accessibility and opportunity.
Mission
Together, the SEDS Rocketry community of advisors, students and friends create an enriched learning environment where all feel safe, valued, and prepared to reach their full potential. Students are immersed in curriculum structured by past leadership, access to high power rocketry literature, and an community focused on creating a collaborative environment. Advisors are our partners; as one entity, we are learners who appreciate individuality, embrace differences, and work to create an educational space around us.
Vision
Austin Community College SEDS Rocketry aspires to be a professional, technical, and ethically responsible organization. To be an exceptional, collaborative community, that ignites students to be accountable, open-minded, and feel empowered for a career in STEM. We are committed to outreach and to inspiring the next generation.
Motto
“No Ego, No Drama, Just Rocket Science.”