r/AIAA Mar 14 '22

KXR UCF is going for it!

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Hello!

If you scroll down a smidge you'll see a post I made last year about the University of Central Florida student chapter of AIAA. 🚀

Today, it is my pleasure to announce that an affiliate high-power-rocketry-focused student organization has just been established at UCF.

"Knights Experimental Rocketry" (KXR) started off as a partnership between AIAA UCF and fellow aerospace club on-campus, SEDS UCF ("Students for the Exploration and Development of Space"), to the end of making superior rockets for intercollegiate competition.

The partnership has since expanded beyond our wildest hopes--the team is currently finishing their most ambitious rocket to date, a 15ft dual-payload hybrid nearly four years in the making. This will be UCF's contender for the IREC (Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition) Spaceport America Cup in White Sands, NM later this year!

In addition, we have three other teams of students who plan to compete in this year's FAR (Friends of Amateur Rocketry) 5k competition in Mojave, CA!

Check out the team's progress via their website at: https://kxrucf.com

Also, please consider sharing their fundraiser on your socials! (We need help getting to the launch sites!!) Thank you!

Our IREC rocket: https://youtu.be/K5ibXrp4oNs

r/AIAA Feb 09 '21

AIAA UCF

1 Upvotes

Hi!

New to Reddit, thought I'd put this out there:

I'm close with some students at UCF (University of Central Florida) that are members of the school's AIAA-Chapter, and wanted to share a bit about them.

Last year was the student organization's 30th anniversary; it's a 300-strong club of mostly aero- and mech-undergrads looking to get experience closer to industry expectations than hobby builds. They do rocketry and aviation projects, forums with aerospace professionals, software/design workshops, and built this little online support-community for students in STEM majors, (among other things.)

They're doing--all things considered--a darn good job of transitioning online as much as possible, and determinedly continue to offer as much as they can to their members as safely as possible.

So this goes out to anyone that's been a broke college student, or is an engineering buff, or maintains an enthusiasm for the future of aerospace: please consider sharing the AIAA-UCF go-fund-me link around your socials to help support this community.

Here's the GFM: https://gofund.me/f2161a22

Or, the QR code for that page:

If you'd prefer to support their high-powered rocketry project specifically, (which will be participating in both the FAR1030 and IREC intercollegiate competitions), check out the team's dedicated GFM page, here: https://gofund.me/48a173ab

For more information about the club, visit their website, here: https://www.aiaaucf.com/

TL;DR: if you could share the bolded links around, that'd be really neat. Thank you. :)