United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge

It provides secondary school student teams (of 3 to 5 members aged 11 to 18), a realistic experience in designing a flying aerospace vehicle that meets a specified set of mission and performance requirements.

Not intended to be easy, and considered well within the capabilities of secondary school students with a good background in science and maths, and some craftsmanship skills.

Run by ADS, its key goal is to "Encourage school children to enter the world of aerospace and science".

For each competition[2] UKRoC teams have had to design, construct and successfully launch a rocket to carry one or more raw medium size hen's egg as close to a specified altitude, for a specific flight time, then return the egg and altimeter payload section safely, and undamaged to earth using a specified means of deceleration.

[11] In 2009, BBC Look North ran a news item on the event,[12] and it featured on the children's show Blue Peter.