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

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

TJ students hold fundraisers for all of their activities so the parents are not paying for all of this. TJ kids know funding is a big part of their jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to TJ kids!

Isn't there a movie about a kid from Appalachia who did this like 70 years ago?

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TJ is also ranked No. 1 by USNWR!

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TJ is ranked as the best high school in the country by Newsweek as well!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to TJ kids!

Isn't there a movie about a kid from Appalachia who did this like 70 years ago?

October Sky starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Great movie.

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Anonymous wrote:

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

TJ students hold fundraisers for all of their activities so the parents are not paying for all of this. TJ kids know funding is a big part of their jobs.

I imagine most of the funds at fundraisers are still coming from the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to TJ kids!

Isn't there a movie about a kid from Appalachia who did this like 70 years ago?

October Sky starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Great movie.

Although interesting I am not sure why first high school has any meaning.
Liquid fuel rockets been around now over 80 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

TJ students hold fundraisers for all of their activities so the parents are not paying for all of this. TJ kids know funding is a big part of their jobs.

I imagine most of the funds at fundraisers are still coming from the parents.

They get a fair amount of corporate donations. Some of their super computers have been donated, some of their Sun equipment as well.

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

They all unfairly benefit from Asian / white unearned privilege.

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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

Didn''t some kid do this in the 1950s? I thought there was a movie about it and all called October Sky?

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Anonymous wrote:TJ is ranked as the best high school in the country by Newsweek as well!

Then why do they always lose to Blair at all these academic contests?

[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

Didn''t some kid do this in the 1950s? I thought there was a movie about it and all called October Sky?

I don't think those kids sent a rocket into a SPACE.

[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. Not only $$, but these parents also have the resources.

[Anonymous]

Great job!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Didn''t some kid do this in the 1950s? I thought there was a movie about it and all called October Sky?

I don't think those kids sent a rocket into a SPACE.

“a SPACE” … is there more than one?