By Andy Diffenderfer
Correspondent
Ridgeland High School freshmen are launching thoughts about careers in science in their attempt to qualify for a national rocketry competition.
With Walker County students minding a wide range of roles from design to support, ninth-graders in Robert Piper’s honors physical science classes aimed to qualify for the Team America Rocketry Challenge, a contest sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry.
Mr. Piper, the faculty representative for the school project and a rocketry enthusiast since childhood, said the students put what they learned in the classroom to sound use for the competition.