"Engaging students in space technology projects in collaboration with academia and industry partners"
ABOUT THE EPFL ROCKET TEAM
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OUR STORY
Our association, recognised by the EPFL, brings together about 200 students from EPFL but also from various Swiss schools and universities such as UNIL , HEIG-VD OR ZHAW. The ERT is currently overseeing four student projects. A competition project, whose goal is to design and launch a rocket in international competitions, a training project for bachelor students wishing to learn and train in rocket manufacturing and, finally, two research and development projects whose mission is to develop a system to re-land the competition rocket in the manner of SpaceX launchers and to design in-house bi-liquid propellant engines with the ultimate goal of reaching space.
OUR GOAL
OUR VALUE
In addition to a lot of technical knowledge, I learned a lot about managing personalities, building on each other's strengths and allowing team members to improve where they still have weaknesses.
![Mathieu Udriot](https://epflrocketteam.ch/wp-content/uploads/img_7195-scaled.jpg)
Despite starting this project with no prior knowledge of propulsion, the team managed to develop a working rocket engine within 2 years! Believe in your dreams!
![Théophile Balestrini](https://epflrocketteam.ch/wp-content/uploads/img_7236.jpg)
Joining the EPFL Rocket Team was a very good decision. It allowed me to have an enriching and formative experience in parallel to my studies and to meet passionate and motivated people. I learnt a lot of things that you can't learn in a theoretical course and developed my softskills. In short, if you are hesitating to join an association, don't ask yourself the question, you are in the right place!
![Baptiste de Christen](https://epflrocketteam.ch/wp-content/uploads/img_7228.jpg)
I joined the Rocket Team with no particular knowledge of rocketry or any particular technical field. And yet, in the space of 2 years I have learned an uncountable amount of things, both technically and organisationally. A practical project like this one is a perfect companion to a mostly theoretical study like the one at EPFL.
![Lucas Pallez](https://epflrocketteam.ch/wp-content/uploads/img_7212.jpg)
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