Rocketry team of local high schoolers advances to national finals

Team members include:

Museum education specialist Jennifer Hess said, “We are very excited to learn that Team Prometheus from the museum qualified in the top one hundred and one qualifiers in the nation.”

She added that the team will now decide how to approach the flights needed at the finals, one of which will be a little higher and another which will be a little lower than the Ohio Cup.

“Over the next few weeks, they will need to decide how to alter their rocket to best meet the challenge. They will make some practice launches and computer simulations to finalize their design,” Hess said.

In addition to qualifying for National Finals, the team will also enter the rocketry presentation competition, where they explain their design and show how test flight data drove decision making.