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THE PLAINS, VA, May 22 - Three ninth graders from Penn Manor, Lancaster, PA, today claimed the honor of first place in the world’s largest and most challenging model rocketry contest. The team achieved a perfect score when their custom-built rocket soared to exactly 1,250 feet. The winners of the second annual Team America Rocketry Challenge, Cam Aument, Benjamin Raush, and Bob O’Connor, will share a $60,000 prize pool with ten other teams listed below. About 600 students in 102 teams from middle schools and high schools from across the nation brought their custom-designed model rockets to Great Meadow in The Plains, VA, after competing successfully against nearly 7,000 other students on 600 teams around the country in regional fly-offs. The students were asked to design and build a two-stage rocket that could fly to an altitude of 1,250 feet-no more, no less-and return a payload of two raw eggs to the ground unbroken. Sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry, the contest was originally created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of flight, and to encourage interest in aerospace design and engineering among high school students. AIA President and CEO John W. Douglass said that AIA and NAR decided to make the contest an annual event after receiving hundreds of requests from students, teachers and parents. The results of the competition and photographs of the winning teams and teams given special awards for their participation can be seen at www.rocketcontest.org. The ten other top teams were: St. Johns, Shrewsbury, MA; C.E. Jordan High School, Durham, NC; Goshen High School, Goshen, IN; Riverside Middle School, Greenville, SC; Edison High School, Fresno, CA; Penn Manor Middle School, Lancaster, PA; Holy Trinity Catholic High School, Temple, TX; Los Gatos High School, Los Gatos, CA; Butler County High School, Morgantown, KY; and, Carlisle High School, Carlisle, OH.
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