<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">"A Portland-area high school came out on top in a new "distributed" version of this year's American Rocketry Challenge that was optimized for pandemic safety.</font></p><div id="gmail-m_-8209688722192387783gmail-ad-unit-1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">Oregon Episcopal School <a href="https://rocketcontest.org/result/2021/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,105,201);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none">received $20,000</a> for coming within one foot and 6.7 feet (2 meters) of a specified altitude in two flights, putting it best among 100 national finalists. As a first-time finalist, the school also received $2,500 for posting the best results among the rookies, and an additional $1,000 given to each finalist participant for placing best in their distributed launch site — bringing the total haul close to $25,000.</font></p><font size="4"></font><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">To qualify for the winner's circle, participating finalist teams had to get as close as they could to 775 feet (236 m) within 39 to 42 seconds on their first flight, and 825 feet (nearly 252 m) within 41 to 44 seconds on their second flight, according to <a href="https://rocketcontest.org/faq/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(54,105,201);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none">competition rules</a>. (The rocket also had minimum weight, length and motor qualifications, among other things.)"</font></p></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">"Weinstein — who also will graduate in 2022 — said the 10 team students had a range of skills, but most of all OES was working to recruit people who were willing to learn the various competencies today's rocket engineer requires, including fuels, materials, computer-assisted design and computer programming. </font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4">The challenge, he added, takes the theoretical work of physics studied in the classroom "into something that you're actually designing, and may or may not work. I think that's really cool for people to see the skills that they've been learning applied to a real-world problem, and that gets them excited about learning more."</font></p></div><font size="4"><a href="https://www.space.com/american-rocketry-challenge-2021-championship" target="_blank">https://www.space.com/american-rocketry-challenge-2021-championship</a></font><br></div>