TEAM AMERICA ROCKETRY CHALLENGE (TARC)
CONGRATULATIONS
to the “SECRECT AGENT PUMAS” & “PURPLE DRAGONS” who have officially qualified to be in the top 100 National Finalists for the 2022 TARC competition!
American Rocketry Finalists Travel Expense Fund
We have set up a GoFundMe campaign to help offset the travel expenses for the two American Rocketry Challenge teams that have qualified as top 100 Finalists to compete near Washington, DC, mid-May 2022 for a National Championship. Please click the GoFundMe link below for more information and to make a donation. You can also donate on our church’s online site by designating TARC. Thank you for your consideration!
American Rocketry Finalists GoFundMe Page
TARC 2022 INFORMATION (PRESS) PDF
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MANCHESTER, CT (FBCMCT) TARC TEAMS
The rocket is part of a national contest, the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC). TARC is the largest model rocket contest in the world, with 5000 students nationwide competing for the nationals in May each year at The Plains, Virginia. Along with scholarship prizes for the top teams, students learn teamwork, planning, application of science and engineering concepts, mentorship (3 UTC engineers mentor the students) and construction, and what it means to represent Christ in how they live and work together.
Our youth group’s team (the Purple Pumas) has participated in TARC every year since 2009, making it to the nationals 4 times and in 2015 achieving the top 5 national position at the finals.
FBC TARC team at the 2019 national finals. The 2019 competition was themed after the Apollo 11 moon landing. In honor of that event the FBC team flew a rocket representing the Saturn V moon rocket and dressed as the staff of mission control.