NASA Hosts RockOn! 2010 University Rocket Science Workshop in June

U.S. university faculty and students are invited to a weeklong workshop to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment into space. NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is hosting the RockOn! 2010 workshop June 19-24, in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. The registration deadline for the workshop is May 31, 2010.

The hands-on workshop teaches participants to build experiments that fly on sounding rockets. During the week, participants will work together in teams of three to construct and integrate a sounding rocket payload from a kit in four days. On the fifth day of the workshop, June 24, their experiments will fly on a NASA Terrier-Orion sounding rocket expected to reach an altitude of 73 miles.

Each experiment will provide valuable scientific data, analyzed as part of the student-led science and engineering research. The program engages faculty and students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills critical to NASA’s future engineering, scientific and technical missions.

Approximately 100 faculty and students participated each year in the 2008 and 2009 workshops. All experiments have been successful, completed on time, launched and recovered. For more information about RockOn! and to register online, visit: http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/rockon.

Questions about the workshop or the registration process should be directed to Chris Koehler by e-mail at koehler@colorado.edu or by telephone at 303-492-3141.