SBHS Aerospace
Airbrakes for our ARC rocket
Four flaps fold out of a 3D-printed section of the rocket to add drag and slow it down near 750 ft. We've finished the CAD and written the flight code, called Rocket++. The picture is a CAD render.
A new SBHS club · Monmouth Junction, NJ
South Brunswick High School
Aerospace Club
SBHS Aerospace Club is a student-run club in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey. Members work on rocketry, electronics, CAD, programming, and aerospace experiments through workshops, projects, and competitions.
ARC National Finals, 2025
The Plains, VA
- SBHS club founded
- 2026
- Total members
- 145+
- Trips to ARC Nationals
- 3
- Competitions this year
- 6
- Teams this year
- 8
Earned as South Brunswick Aerospace Club, the nonprofit that came before the SBHS club.
01 / What we do
Rockets, circuits,
code, and CAD.
Students run every project here. If you already know how to do something, you help teach it to someone who doesn't.
Rocketry
We build rockets for the American Rocketry Challenge. Before we cut or print anything, we model the rocket in OpenRocket to make sure it's stable and will get close to the target altitude.
Electronics
Microcontrollers, sensors, and a lot of wiring. Recent work includes the controller for our airbrakes and the data logger inside our NASA TechRise payload.
CAD & Simulation
Most parts start in Onshape and end up on a 3D printer. We also use CFD to see how things like airbrake flaps change the airflow around the rocket.
Programming
C++ for the airbrake flight code, Python for the payload's data logging, and CircuitSpace, a small web app we made for planning rocket wiring.
02 / So far
A few things
we're proud of.
ARC National Finals, three times
Our teams made the 100-team American Rocketry Challenge National Finals in Virginia in 2024, 2025, and 2026. One of those teams finished 50th.
NASA TechRise Winner in 2026
Our NDVI payload, which measures light reflected off the ground to map vegetation, was picked as a TechRise Student Challenge winner.
New SBHS club in fall 2026
The school approved the club this fall. Members who meet the requirements can now get it on their transcript.
Earned as South Brunswick Aerospace Club, the nonprofit that came before the SBHS club. How we got here
03 / Projects
What we've been
building lately.
Some of these have flown and some are still on the workbench. Here's where each one is.
NDVI payload for NASA TechRise
A prototype payload that measures visible and near-infrared light so we can map vegetation. Every second, it saves flight data and sensor readings to an SD card.
ARC competition rockets
Every season a team builds a rocket that has to carry a raw egg to a set altitude and bring it back uncracked. Our teams flew at the National Finals in 2024, 2025, and 2026. This is the current build on the pad at a World Space Week launch in October 2026.
04 / Join
Come build
with us.
Any SBHS student can join as a general member, and you don't need any engineering experience. Competitive teams are separate and have their own tryouts.
This year's 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.
