Mentorship


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What Is It?

The Ignitors Rocketry mentorship program is the first rocket science mentorship program at Texas A&M University. This is a 7-week program intended to provide knowledge of both basic and advanced rocket science. We combine both lecture based & hands on learning to give you information, and to give you experience actually working with rockets.

We want to take students of all majors and classifications and give them both the knowledge and experience they need to be productive members on a rocketry team. There is no requirement for previous knowledge or experience in rocketry, and no preferential bias to accept those who already have experience. We want passionate, interested people who haven't yet had the opportunity to explore rocketry in the way they want to.

If you’re interested in learning more about rockets, but don’t have the experience to jump straight onto a rocketry team, then you should join us! Applications will reopen in the Fall!


Curriculum

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Launch 1

Learn the basics of rocketry

  • Flying on A-Class Motors
  • 0-200 Foot Altitude
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Launch 2

Improve your design and upgrade it

  • Flying on B-Class Motors
  • 200-400 Foot Altitude
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Launch 3

Work with a team and design a better rocket

  • Flying on C-Class Motors
  • Up to 1000 Foot Altitude

This 7-week long program consists of a basic rocketry curriculum running in parallel with one of 4 specialty tracks. The general curriculum covers all of the basic aerospace principles and rocketry practices. Meanwhile, the specialties go in depth teaching the concepts central to Propulsion, Structures, Dynamics, and Avionics.