Inver Hills Rocketry Team earns 5th place in prestigious NASA USLI competition

Inver Thrills, the rocketry team from Inver Hills Community College, earned 5th place (overall) in the NASA USLI (University Student Launch Initiative) rocketry competition. There were 28 teams from different educational institutions (mostly universities, and three community colleges) from within USA. The overall rankings were as follows:

1) Utah State University

2) MIT

3) Vanderbilt

4) North Carolina State University

5) Inver Hills Community College

You can read more about our rocketry team's accomplishments here. Please also click on other links (video of our team's rocket launch in Alabama) at that website. Enjoy!

NASA USLI Advanced Rocketry Workshop

Hello Future Engineer,

My students (Caleb Boe & Bryan Sullivan) and I recently attended NASA USLI Advanced Rocketry Workshop in Huntsville, Alabama. As part of the workshop, we built a high power rocket (to house the rocket motor of class H), listened carefully to the regulations for USLI (University Student Launch Initiative) competition, had dinner with Tim Pickens, and toured some parts of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. My students had lots of fun and learning on this trip.

The pictures from the workshop can be viewed as part of Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, and Set 4.
The video-clip of the launch can be watched on youtube.

If you are currently a student at Inver Hills, you can email me at, avyas *AT* inverhills dot edu, and I will be happy to forward your email to Caleb Boe or Bryan Sullivan. You will definitely get a response from them.

If you are planning to join Inver Hills and wish to know more about Inver Hills and/or Engineering curriculum at Inver Hills, please email me at the above email address and I will be happy to help you in any way I can!

Hope this blog has been a fun read, and inspired you to get started in Rocketry.

If you aim for the stars, you are very likely to reach the launch pad!