HUNTSVILLE — The Huntsville High School Space Force JROTC Space Panthers are off to Houston for the StellarXplorers national finals this week.
The school hosted a send-off ceremony for the team this morning. The competition runs Thursday through Saturday.
This Space Panthers team of DJ Fisher, Shepherd Howley, Ayden Taylor, Wesley Headrick and Joseph McCallion qualified with the highest score in the competition. They join 10 other teams from across the nation in the finals.
StellarXplorers is a program to inspire and attract high school students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and careers. Throughout the competition, 255 teams nationwide competed in three challenging rounds solving real world problems for satellite mission orbit planning, satellite design and a satellite launch scenario.
Created and produced by the Air Force Association, the nonprofit educational organization provides a hands-on, space design challenge involving all aspects of space systems development and operation with a spacecraft and payload focus.
