GOALS & OBJECTIVES

The Old Dominion Rocketry Club educates students in high-power rocketry and supports them in achieving HPR certifications. We encourage connections between students and industry professionals through hosting regular meetings and workshops and tabling at community outreach events. ODRC also advances aerospace at ODU by networking with other aerospace clubs, encouraging personal research projects in fields such as composites manufacturing, and building and launching rockets that integrate cutting-edge technology. 

One of our core projects is competing in IREC. Each year, our students learn project management and manufacturing skills in this deadline-driven, competitive engineering project. We strive to develop and manufacture more student researched and developed (SRAD) parts for our future rockets, with a focus on composite materials, payload design and integration, and custom electronic systems.