Kennesaw ROcketry and Propulsion Team

In what Bloomberg has called the New Space Age, our competition team wants to enable students to become better innovators through hands-on learning. The Kennesaw Rocketry and Propulsion Team (KRPT) seeks to combine the efforts of all professions, not just the STEM field, in order to create a more well rounded pioneer of the future.

Our first-year team will be competing in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) a conference led by Spaceport America and the nonprofit group, the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA), this June. Student rocketry teams from around the world will compete in a virtual competition to showcase their hard work in designing a sounding rocket capable of carrying a payload up to 30,000 ft. in altitude.

The event provides students an opportunity to express their interest in STEM fields like aerospace, chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering, and aerospace, rocketry, and space as a whole. Participants can experience firsthand the complex, but fulfilling journey of collaborating on a team to prototype, analyze, and test a safe vehicle to meet outlined criteria. We believe that this is exactly what crafts better engineers and visionaries.

For more details, visit the ESRA's website or Spaceport America's page. The Spaceport America Cup's specific requirements are listed here.