{"id":19642,"date":"2025-06-19T12:03:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=19642"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:13:09","slug":"student-space-technology-assoc-university-of-tennessee-knoxville-innovates-with-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2025\/06\/student-space-technology-assoc-university-of-tennessee-knoxville-innovates-with-stem.html","title":{"rendered":"Student Space Technology Assoc University of Tennessee Knoxville Innovates with STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Student Space Technology Association University of Tennessee Knoxville<\/a> (SSTA-UTK) innovates from ground zero to the stars.\u00a0 This year, SSTA has become the largest hands-on space-focused Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) organization on campus with 100 active members and eight planned projects for the 2025-2026 school year.<\/p>\n

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The SSTA-UTK is building a pipeline for our future. In the past few weeks, they have participated in international events with multi-discipline teams of engineers, scientists, and business professionals.<\/p>\n

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Last week, SSTA-UTK participated in the IREC 2025<\/a> (formally Spaceport America Cup) and won 1st place in the Student Research and Designed (SRAD) 30,000ft hybrid rocket category.<\/p>\n

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The team reached their goal to launch their rocket, dubbed Redshift, to an altitude of 30,000ft\u00a0 Above Ground Level (AGL).<\/p>\n

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On June 24th, the team successfully flew and recovered Redshift. Redshift reached a peak altitude of 28,868ft (altimeter based) and hit Mach 1.77 (1350mph). It was a challenging and insightful experience and the team has learned a great deal from it.<\/p>\n

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No matter what the competition, SSTA-UTK focuses on teamwork.<\/p>\n

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On June 1st, 2025 in the Mojave desert, the team prepared to launch \u201cBig Liquid\u201d \u2013 their first flight-ready liquid-rocket \u2013 to 50,000 ft, a student group record – and they almost achieved a world record. Unfortunately, their fill line did not close at ignition. But the team learned critical lessons on subsystems and will try again in the next school year.<\/p>\n

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SSTA-UTK works throughout the school year with industry advisors, university researchers and their community.<\/p>\n

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Professionals provide great insights to students beyond classroom theory.<\/p>\n

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SSTA-UTK STEM Outreach gives high school girls great role models and exciting examples of using science to complete a task – even with a paper rocket.<\/p>\n

Thank you Zachary Marano<\/a> and SSTA-UTK<\/a> team for sharing with the SOLIDWORKS Community.\u00a0 We wish you the best in the upcoming season.\u00a0 Thank you too for being part of the SOLIDWORKS Student Team Sponsorship<\/a> program.<\/p>\n

Design well.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n

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The Student Space Technology Association University of Tennessee Knoxville (SSTA-UTK) innovates from ground zero to the stars.\u00a0 This year, SSTA has become the largest hands-on space-focused Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) organization on campus with 100 active members and<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6712],"tags":[7717,7471,3931,7714,7716,7711,7713,7715,7712],"class_list":["post-19642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-irec","tag-rockets","tag-solidworks","tag-space-student-technology-association","tag-spaceport-america","tag-ssta","tag-ssta-utk","tag-university-of-tennessee-knoxville","tag-utk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19642"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions\/19664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}