The new school year is in its second week and with it, the Fredericksburg High School Engineering program has begun working toward new goals.
The program is off to a “Great start,” according to Engineering instructor, Andrew Matthes. “We received a NASA grant to continue testing and replace some older components for safety and increased fidelity in test data.”
A date of October 21, 2016 is set for Teststand operations to start. A Teststand task list and working groups have been established by the Senior group.
New to the program this year is a Senior out of class work schedule. Students signed a contract requiring them to commit to a set amount of overtime/after class work time in order to meet all deadlines and complete their rocket/project for the year. The group is currently establishing a working schedule in order to implement these hours. As for the actual rocket, the class is currently studying the rocket history portion of the curriculum.
This year (Fall semester) there are four classes. Forty-four freshman are enrolled in two separate classes, the junior class has twelve students and the senior class has eighteen. There will be two Sophomore classes starting in the Spring semester.
This article is the first in a new series of monthly updates that will follow the Fredericksburg Engineering/Rocket program. This school is a participant of the SystemsGo STEM program. This series of articles is intended to support and encourage students in the program as they share their working status and accomplishments throughout the year in the program. These publications will be available for tags and re-posting.
www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. You may also email them at info@systemsgo.org . Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be greatly benefited.
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