Governors of the University of Alberta

Published purpose

13SSTABCAN: This project entitled «The Ninth Canada/Norway Student Sounding Rocket (CaNoRock-9)» has the objective(s) : CaNoRock is a collaboration between the Andoya Rocket Range and seven Canadian and Norwegian Universities to use hands-on rocket activities to train students and attract them to graduate study or the aerospace industry. The successfull three-year pilot program trained 65 Canadian undergraduate students through 7 student rocket courses. Alumni of the program show unprecedented high interest in the aerospace industry (40%), graduate study (77%) and have been employed by companies such as Magellan Aerospace and Boeing. This project will fund one additional CaNoRock campaign to maintain program continuity and the excellent partnership with Norway.