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COMPETITION AIMS TO ENCOURAGE
11–18-YEAR-OLDS TO REACH FOR THE
STARS WITH UKROC 2024
A
major new event is aiming to
encourage 11-18-year-olds
interested in science, technology,
engineering, and maths (STEM) to
enter the UK’s largest youth rocketry
competition – the UK Youth Rocketry
Challenge (UKROC).
Registered teams will compete against
other students in the region for a place
in the national finals in June 2024 to be
crowned national champions.
The national champions will win an
all-expenses paid trip to Farnborough,
to represent the UK in a fly-off against
international teams from the USA,
Japan, and France at the 2024 edition of
Farnborough International Airshow.
UKROC involves the design, build, and
launch of a model rocket, with the
payload of one raw egg representing the
astronauts. The rocket must get closest
to at least 820 feet in altitude within a
goal timeframe of 43-46 seconds and the
‘astronaut’ must remain intact throughout
the launch and landing.
Teams across the UK compete regionally
to qualify for the national finals with the
winners representing the UK in a fly-off
against international teams at the 2024
Farnborough International Airshow.
Rules governing the competition are
altered each year to encourage innovative
thinking amongst participants and ensures
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previous designs can’t be repeated.
UKROC enables young people to gain
practical insight into how STEM subjects
are used by the aerospace, defence,
security and space sectors which support
more than one million jobs across the
country, providing high-wage and high
skilled careers that boost local economies
and communities.
The UK Youth Rocketry Challenge provides
11-18-year-olds with a unique opportunity
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to work together and put into practice key
skills in engineering and physics, inspiring
and paving the way for them to become
the future engineers and scientists our
country needs.
The rocketry challenge is a one of a kind
and a great hands-on learning opportunity
for 11-18-year-olds and a lot of fun. Anyone
who is an aspiring astronaut, physicist,
engineer, or scientist, should enter this
competition to gain invaluable experience.