SBHS Aerospace
About us
About the SBHS Aerospace Club
We're a student-run engineering club at South Brunswick High School in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.
Who we are
The SBHS Aerospace Club is where students build real aerospace projects: rockets, flight electronics, CAD models, code, and science payloads. The SBHS club is new this fall. It grew out of South Brunswick Aerospace Club, a nonprofit that students in South Brunswick started in 2023, which still runs outreach events like community rocket launches.
You can be involved in two ways. General members come to monthly meetings, pick up skills like circuit design, data analysis, and fabrication, and work on challenges during meetings. Competitive members do all of that and also join a team for a specific competition, which means a lot of work outside of meetings.
Before the school club existed, our members competed as the nonprofit. Those teams made the American Rocketry Challenge National Finals in 2024, 2025, and 2026, and in 2026 our NASA TechRise team was named a Student Challenge winner.
How people learn here
Most members join with no engineering background, and that's normal.
At meetings
Members who already know CAD, simulation, circuits, or code teach it to everyone else at general meetings.
On a team
New competitive members work right next to the people who built our earlier rockets and payloads.
From past projects
Our CAD files and code live on GitHub, so nobody has to start from scratch.
Who runs things
A student executive board runs the club, with help from our club advisor, Ms. Chishti. Meet the board.
How we got here
The nonprofit starts
Students in South Brunswick started South Brunswick Aerospace Club, a nonprofit, to design and build rockets together.
ARC National Finals
A team from the nonprofit qualified for the American Rocketry Challenge National Finals in The Plains, Virginia.
Back at the finals
Another of our teams made it to the National Finals.
TechRise and a third trip to Nationals
Our NDVI payload was picked as a TechRise Student Challenge winner, and a second ARC team made the National Finals.
SBHS Aerospace Club begins
South Brunswick High School approved the Aerospace Club as a new school club, open to every SBHS student. The nonprofit keeps running outreach, like the World Space Week community launch in October 2026.
Common questions
No. Any SBHS student can join as a general member, and we teach everything at meetings.
General meetings are once a month after school, from 2:30 to 4:00 PM. The next two are Wednesday, October 21 and Thursday, November 19. We post new dates in Google Classroom (code qm5z27c2).
This year our competitive teams are working on the American Rocketry Challenge, NASA TechRise, Genes in Space, Cubes in Space, the Aviation Design Challenge, and the REC Foundation Aerial Drone Competition.
Through tryouts, which happen in the summer and in October. You do one assignment based on a skill the team needs. This year's tryouts are over, but you can join as a general member now and try out next time. More on the Tryouts page.
It can, if you meet the club's requirements. They're listed in the club information doc.