NASA is seeking university and community college students and instructors interested in developing science payloads for space flight to participate in the eleventh annual RockOn! workshop June 16 – 21 at its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
RockOn!, conducted in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia, will provide students and instructors experience in building experiments for suborbital space flight, including experience with programming, component layout and electrical interfacing.
The workshop concludes with the launch of the student-developed experiments on a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket predicted to fly to an altitude of 73 miles. The flight will take place June 21, the last day of the workshop, weather permitting.
“RockOn! has provided hundreds of students the opportunity to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to an actual space flight project,” said Giovanni Rosanova, assistant chief of the Sounding Rocket Program Office at Wallops. “Wallops looks forward to hosting students from across the country and support them as they become engaged in the workshop activities.”
Since 2008, more than 519 students and faculty, from 39 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have participated in the RockOn! workshops.
The deadline for RockOn registration is May 2, and is open only to U.S. citizens.
More information on this program, including how to register and fees, is available at:
http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/national-programs/rockon-2018-home
RockOn! Is supported through NASA’s Sounding Rocket Program at Wallops. NASA’s Heliophysics Division manages the sounding-rocket program for the agency.
