CIA helps the University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering department with the rocketry portion of the Illinois Aerospace Institute summer program for high school kids every year. We help them launch the boost gliders and egglofters that they build earlier in the week, and we fly a few of our own for demonstration and fun.
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CIA-Rocketry > The IAI invites about 30 high school students to sample programs in aerospace engineering and aviation for a week each summer. During Monday evening's session, they built rockets (each carrying a fragile egg and an electronic altimeter) to fly at Friday's launch. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Students at the Illinois Aerospace Institute begin work on their rockets. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Jonathan Sivier helps a student install the motor block and hook in his rocket at the IAI building session Monday night. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > A student carefully cuts out the balsa fins for the rocket she designed. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Concentration. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Some IAI students compare rocket designs. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Completing construction of a rocket with unusual fins. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Some students devised their own clever method for cutting out a perfectly round parachute. Photo by Greg Smith
CIA-Rocketry > Nearly the last step: attaching a parachute to the payload section. Photo by Greg Smith
Jonathan Sivier helps a student install the motor block and hook in his rocket at the IAI building session Monday night. Photo by Greg Smith
> Jonathan Sivier helps a student install the motor block and hook in his rocket at the IAI building session Monday night. Photo by Greg Smith
Jonathan Sivier helps a student install the motor block and hook in his rocket at the IAI building session Monday night. Photo by Greg Smith
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