The RockOn 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 workshops were a huge success. Since the first workshop in 2008, 240 faculty and students from 36 states plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have attended and formed 78 teams. All payloads were completed in time allotted. All payloads were launched and recovered. 75 out of 78 payloads worked. The RockOn 2014 rocket will be a Terrier-Improved Orion. RockOn 2014 will also be the second year using a new microcontroller system based on the Arduino platform. If you have any questions please contact Chris Koehler at or by phone at 303-492-3141.
Virginia Tech students are encouraged to contact a member of the VT SuperDARN laboratory if they have questions.
Dr. Mike Ruohoniemi
Dr. Jo Baker
Nathaniel Frissell
Download the PDF Flyer Here: RockOn Flyer 2014 lo.pdf
RockOn! 2014 Rocket Science Workshop
By: Nathaniel Frissell on: Tue., Jan. 14, 2014 02:27 PM EST (4023 Reads)
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Duration: June 14 - 19, 2014
Location: NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility, Virginia Open to: US Citizens and Permanent Residents Application Deadline: 2 May 2014 Apply Through: http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/rockon/  How it works: You register to participate (by April 4, 2014 for a discount) and, when selected, you are invited to stay in scenic Chincoteague, Virginia (next to the Wallops Island Flight Facility) for the duration of the program, assembling and then flying a rocket payload as part of a team of rocketeers. Registration will cover all your on-site expenses but you must make your own hotel arrangements (easy). During the RockOn workshop, teams will learn through hands-on activities, how to build a sounding rocket payload or RocketSat. Teams of 3 will build their RocketSat from a kit in four days and launch it on sounding rocket to ~73 miles on the sixth day. The hardware in the kit could be used on future RocketSat and possibly CubeSat flights. Wallops will be providing the rocket and launch operations for the workshop. Wallops will also provide a tour and briefings on sounding rocket environments for future flights. We will also present their concept for standardized flight opportunities for future experiments called RockSat-C and RockSat-X. This workshop is not about building rockets. It is about learning to build sounding rocket payloads. This workshop is organized by the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortium. RockOn is funded by you, the participant, and NASA Education. A significant amount of cost sharing from Wallops and the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant programs also make RockOn possible. |
