Virginia students work to become first high school group to send liquid-fueled rocket into space

[Anonymous]

"When you hear about a high schooler fitting 60 people into their house at once, it’s usually for a party when parents are away, blissfully unaware until they return to a few broken items or suspicious stains.

Ron Nachum's parents, however, knew exactly what was going on. In fact, they were home.

But his 60-person hangouts aren't for parties - their meetings are meant to attract students passionate about a single mission: launching a liquid-powered rocket into space and potentially, someday being the first-ever high school group to do so.

Together they’re known as Project Caelus, a group based out of Alexandria’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology that was founded in 2018.

Along with dozens of students at any given meeting in the Nachum garage, there’s also about $25,000 worth of equipment, from gas tanks to metal scraps - all purchased through the students’ own fundraising efforts. The team shares a detailed timeline of their past work and future goals on the website, with a current plan to do an initial launch of their first liquid-fueled rocket in June of this year. The experiment will eventually lead to their ultimate goal of sending a final rocket all the way into space."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-high-school-rocket-space-thomas-jefferson-alexandria/65-a8ca7e44-7215-45c5-8aae-d6239a5d88d6

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to TJ kids!

[Anonymous]

They also launched the first satellite into orbit built by high school students several years ago as the first HS students! Congrats.

[Anonymous]

Weren't they the first to build the super computer as high schoolers as well many years ago? Impressive.

[Anonymous]

They do offer some amazing opportunities.

[Anonymous]

We need more students like these TJ kids to compete in the Global world.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to the kids. Very proud of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"When you hear about a high schooler fitting 60 people into their house at once, it’s usually for a party when parents are away, blissfully unaware until they return to a few broken items or suspicious stains.

Ron Nachum's parents, however, knew exactly what was going on. In fact, they were home.

But his 60-person hangouts aren't for parties - their meetings are meant to attract students passionate about a single mission: launching a liquid-powered rocket into space and potentially, someday being the first-ever high school group to do so.

Together they’re known as Project Caelus, a group based out of Alexandria’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology that was founded in 2018.

Along with dozens of students at any given meeting in the Nachum garage, there’s also about $25,000 worth of equipment, from gas tanks to metal scraps - all purchased through the students’ own fundraising efforts. The team shares a detailed timeline of their past work and future goals on the website, with a current plan to do an initial launch of their first liquid-fueled rocket in June of this year. The experiment will eventually lead to their ultimate goal of sending a final rocket all the way into space."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-high-school-rocket-space-thomas-jefferson-alexandria/65-a8ca7e44-7215-45c5-8aae-d6239a5d88d6

Maybe this kid is truly passionate, but this is exactly the kind of article that parents get published for their kid to "prove" passion in the kid's EC as part of the college application package. Look at the $$ they are able to spend for the kid.

[Anonymous]

I hope they don't accidentally blow themselves up. Liquid rocket fuel is no joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"When you hear about a high schooler fitting 60 people into their house at once, it’s usually for a party when parents are away, blissfully unaware until they return to a few broken items or suspicious stains.

Ron Nachum's parents, however, knew exactly what was going on. In fact, they were home.

But his 60-person hangouts aren't for parties - their meetings are meant to attract students passionate about a single mission: launching a liquid-powered rocket into space and potentially, someday being the first-ever high school group to do so.

Together they’re known as Project Caelus, a group based out of Alexandria’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology that was founded in 2018.

Along with dozens of students at any given meeting in the Nachum garage, there’s also about $25,000 worth of equipment, from gas tanks to metal scraps - all purchased through the students’ own fundraising efforts. The team shares a detailed timeline of their past work and future goals on the website, with a current plan to do an initial launch of their first liquid-fueled rocket in June of this year. The experiment will eventually lead to their ultimate goal of sending a final rocket all the way into space."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-high-school-rocket-space-thomas-jefferson-alexandria/65-a8ca7e44-7215-45c5-8aae-d6239a5d88d6

Maybe this kid is truly passionate, but this is exactly the kind of article that parents get published for their kid to "prove" passion in the kid's EC as part of the college application package. Look at the $$ they are able to spend for the kid.

just speculating but i don't think he needs to worry about getting into a good school.

[Anonymous]

The Number 1 High School in America Offers a Real Head Start

With its focus on student-driven research, specialized college-level coursework in subjects like computer science and bio-nanotechnology, and high proportion of faculty holding Ph.D.s, Thomas Jefferson hardly resembles a conventional high school. "We're a lot like a college in a lot of ways, because we have a really active alumni base that's willing to help us, that communicates with us," says Anant Das, a rising senior spending part of the summer on campus to prepare for a stint as student council president. "They love to come back and be with us. I don't think you get that at other high schools."

Das is planning to begin work in an energy systems research lab in the fall. Roughly half of Thomas Jefferson students are involved in individualized research in any given year, Glazer says, but all seniors are expected to complete a major research project before graduation. There are labs dealing with neuroscience, astronomy, oceanography and other subjects; eventually, the results are presented at symposiums and science fairs.

We tour the building-in-progress, and the principal walks over to research plaques encased in glass, excitedly pointing out a satellite a group of students launched into space with help from NASA.

https://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/19/number-1-high-school-america-offers-real-head-start-268693.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"When you hear about a high schooler fitting 60 people into their house at once, it’s usually for a party when parents are away, blissfully unaware until they return to a few broken items or suspicious stains.

Ron Nachum's parents, however, knew exactly what was going on. In fact, they were home.

But his 60-person hangouts aren't for parties - their meetings are meant to attract students passionate about a single mission: launching a liquid-powered rocket into space and potentially, someday being the first-ever high school group to do so.

Together they’re known as Project Caelus, a group based out of Alexandria’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology that was founded in 2018.

Along with dozens of students at any given meeting in the Nachum garage, there’s also about $25,000 worth of equipment, from gas tanks to metal scraps - all purchased through the students’ own fundraising efforts. The team shares a detailed timeline of their past work and future goals on the website, with a current plan to do an initial launch of their first liquid-fueled rocket in June of this year. The experiment will eventually lead to their ultimate goal of sending a final rocket all the way into space."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-high-school-rocket-space-thomas-jefferson-alexandria/65-a8ca7e44-7215-45c5-8aae-d6239a5d88d6

Maybe this kid is truly passionate, but this is exactly the kind of article that parents get published for their kid to "prove" passion in the kid's EC as part of the college application package. Look at the $$ they are able to spend for the kid.

+1. Marketing.

[Anonymous]

Wonder where the kids on this projects are going for college!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder where the kids on this projects are going for college!

They typically go to MIT, Berkeley, CMU, Michigan or VATech.

[Anonymous]

What would these kids do without their wealthy parents to fund this crap?