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Congratulations to our North Texas Colleges!
International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC)
15-21 June 2026 
Spaceport Midland, TX

15^th Place - UT Dallas (10K’ Student Design) pictured above
31^st Place - UT Arlington (10K’ COTS) pictured below
52^nd Place - Tarleton State (10K’ COTS)
126^th Place - Baylor (30K’ Multi-Stage)
Out of 141 International Teams!

Special Awards 
UT Arlington
- Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence
- Charles Hoult Award for Modeling & Simulation
- Nancy Squires Team Spirit Award - Runner Up
UT Dallas
- 10K’ Solid SRAD - 2nd Place

Moon Day STEM Event
Saturday, 18 July 2026
Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas Love Field
6911 Lemmon Ave, Dallas, TX 75209  (214) 350-3600
Moon Day celebrates the Apollo 11 landing anniversary and showcases the past, present, and future of space exploration. AIAA NTX along with SETP Southwest Section will again participate with our Flight Test Range & Sim.

1. Design, Build, Decorate a paper airplane.
2. Fly it on the Flight Test Range to measure time and distance.
3. Compute the resultant velocity, convert it from fps to mph.
4. Fly the Sim.
Volunteer! Morning or afternoon shifts available (please specify). Pizza volunteer lunch provided. Come early to fly our sim. Stay late to meet the astronaut for a picture & autograph. Or do both!

Keynote Speaker
Carl E. Walz (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) served as a NASA Astronaut (1990-2008). He logged 231 days in space on four space flights including the 196-day Expedition-4 crew aboard the International Space Station. Walz conducted three spacewalks totaling more than 18 hours evaluating tools for the Hubble Space Telescope refurbishment and outfitting the International Space Station. Walz graduated in 1983 as a Flight Test Engineer at the USAF Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California.

AIAA CbA CoI Participants and Interested Individuals,

The AIAA SciTech 2027 call for content is now live, which means it will soon be time for us to submit abstracts. You can find information about the abstract submission process on the SciTech 2027 website below:

https://scitech.aiaa.org/call-for-content/call-for-papers/abstract-submission-process-requirements/

In order to efficiently organize all CbA Challenge Problem submissions, the CbA CoI organizing team had created a template abstract. It is very important that you use this template when submitting your abstract. Doing so will allow the organizing team to easily identify your papers among all other (potentially thousands) of SciTech abstract submissions. If you like, you can also email the organizing team to let us know when you have submitted your abstract so that we can keep a list and make sure none are lost or left out of our special session(s). The sample abstract can be downloaded from engage using this link Sample Abstract AIAA SciTech2027

To ensure your paper is correctly assigned to this Special Session, while submitting please select:

• Presentation Type: Technical Paper
• Topic: Uncertainty Quantification (Non-Deterministic Approaches)
• Sub-topic: Certification By Analysis Challenge Problem (CFD 2030, APA, UQ)

Best regards,

The CbA CoI Organizing Team