SUCCESSES
Launching a Program
Robstown ISD student lobbies to bring Aeroscience program to his school
Designing and building a rocket that roars off the launch pad is a powerful challenge to any high school student. But one Robstown student accomplished something more difficult; he launched an entire aeroscience program at his school.
Omar Lopez, a junior at Robstown High School, has been interested in science since the second grade when his uncle took him to see a shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral. In school, he signed up for all the math and science courses he could, but it was in English class where he caught the space bug - he read a book called Rocket Boys, a memoir of a boy growing up in a mining town while pursuing amateur rocketry. >> read more
• The Space Foundation named IGNITE's SystemsGo curriculum as a Certified Educational Product (Colorado Springs, CO, September, 2007). The Space Certification program was created by the Space Foundation, in cooperation with NASA, to raise awareness and understanding about space and the benefits of technologies originally developed for the space program.
• Fredericksburg High School is the first high school to design and develop rockets exceeding Mach 2
• First high school to launch rockets at a Federal Missile Range with national records for largest, fastest and highest vehicle designed and developed by high school students
• Eighty percent (80%) of the students in the SystemsGo Aeroscience program have continued on to study engineering in college, with many starting careers at major space related companies such as NASA, United Space Alliance, and Space Exploration Aeroscience program students who have gone into engineering fields.
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