Alabama Rocketry Association

Come visit us at the Bryant Conference Center today as we table and volunteer for the 2025 Alabama Robotics Competition! Hope to see y’all there!

An eventful week for ARA!

Over the past week, our liquids team hot fired their liquid fueled engine once more, and our solids team launched their sub-scale rocket for the Spaceport America Cup!

Both of these tests help us progress further and provide us with data that is essential in further testing and producing our systems.

Stay tuned for more information about our progress!

The Alabama Rocketry Association is proudly sponsored by American Filament!

Located in Huntsville, AL, American Filament has partnered with us to provide filament for our 3D print and CAD educational workshops. These workshops will enable students from all aspects of study to learn how to use 3D modeling software to design, prototype, and create endless products using PLA based filaments. Thank you for your support!
https://americanfilament.us

Meet our Lab Safety Officer for the 2024-2025 school year, Atreiu Vacchi!

Previously, he worked as the solids team Payload Lead for the Spaceport America Cup team in 2022-202 and NASA Student Launch team in 2023-2024. He was drawn to the payload subteam during his freshman year based on the multidisciplinary nature and design freedom offered. His experience involves the structural design, manufacturing, assembly, and coding of the Spaceport America Cup and NASA Student Launch Payloads. He enjoys watching F1, mountain biking, and traveling.

Find more information and contact him at: https://www.alabamarocketry.org/our-leadership.html

Alabama Rocketry Association is proudly sponsored by Silicdyne. This sponsorship provides us with high-end avionics systems for low cost to be implemented into solid and liquid fueled research. Thank you!

We will be hosting our first business team workshop on March 7th at 6:30pm in Hardaway 252! It will cover marketing and advertising. It will be hosted by an outside speaker, the amazing professor Dempsey! We really want to make sure that we have good attendance as this is the FIRST BUSINESS TEAM SPEAKER IN ARA HISTORY. This workshop is open to anyone and everyone (even if you are not an ARA member) and is completely free. With the Q&A section, it should be about 1 hour. Anyone planning on running for any positions next year is highly encouraged to attend.

SEE YOU THERE!

Hey everyone it’s time for a fundraising update! This week we want to highlight the Jim N Nicks % night Tuesday the 21st! AKA Tomorrow!

Get some wonderful BBQ, for either dine in or take out! Make sure to mention ARA. Anything between 4pm and 8:30 pm counts!

Happy Valentine’s Day from ARA!

We come bearing a very special update of your one true love (the ARA lab). After many weeks of being closed due to a fire in the building, we are expected to get access back THIS WEEK!

Check with your Project Manager on teams to see when your back in the lab! Happy Valentine’s Day and Roll Tide!

Bringing to you, Learn with ARA #2!

Today at 6:30 pm CT, we will be joined by Jane Gillette on zoom to talk about Systems Engineering and how it applies to ARA! Jane was one of our past Presidents who contributed a lot to ARA! She will be talking about her works in ARA, her present-day job as a Systems Engineer at United Launch Alliance, and how it all ties together!

If you are interested in learning about how systems engineering works in the industry, and how you can start your preparation to be a systems engineer through ARA, this is highly recommended for you!

Please message us for the zoom link if interested.

Happy Black History Month! We at Alabama Rocketry Association are proud to join the national celebration of the Black History Month and reflect on the contributions of the Black community to the world, nation, and at home at ARA.

This month we will feature some of the incredible ARA members belonging to this community!

We are starting the Learn with ARA series!
One of our main goals this semester is to conduct more technical and educational workshops for our members to benefit from! Our first training of the series is with Dr. Aslangil from the AEM department. Dr. Aslangil will teach basics about CFD and help getting started with ANSYS.

We widely use ANSYS for our simulations, so we are excited to have our new members learn this skill!

Remember Get On Board Day? Welcome to GOBD spring edition! We will be set up in the ferg room 3108 booth 24 between 5-9 PM this Tuesday. Come stop by and say hi, even if your already apart of the greatest team around!

Already a member? Your welcome to help explain what we do to prospective members! We will also need help setting up and carrying things back!

Roll Tide!