Sponsorship Archives - Castle Point Rocketry

CPR Ties for First Place!

May 15, 2019June 5, 2020
by Dakota

You may recall Technogenesis. Colloquially called “TG,” it’s the entrepreneurship analog course to Senior Design. TG is designed to teach every team the metrics of making a business out of our projects. Most importantly, it teaches everyone the impact of a good pitch.

The culmination of the Stevens Innovation Expo is the elevator pitch competition — recently rebranded as the Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition. Ten teams compete for $17,500 in prize money. And we tied for first!

The team with our comically large check. We tied for first place!

The Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition is the final round in a series of judged pitches. The quarterfinals are a combination of two votes. First, all teams present in class to a panel of TG professors. Then, the public votes on each team’s pitch video on YouTube.

Castle Point Rocketry’s official TG video.

Castle Point Rocketry passed the quarterfinals on the public vote. Two weeks later, we also passed the semifinals, which left us with about a week to prepare for the Ansary Entrepreneurship Competition. Faris, our resident Pitch Master, worked overtime to make sure the pitch was the best it could be.

We were pretty happy with how he sounded — and apparently the judges were, too! The rest of the team joined Faris on stage after his pitch to answer any questions, of which there were only two. After the other nine teams pitched, they announced the co-winners: LifeSkills Software and Castle Point Rocketry! Castle Point Rocketry also won the “Audience Choice” award.

Our teams are are splitting the $15,000 reserved for the first- and second place teams. (They weren’t expecting a tie!) Castle Point Rocketry’s $7,500 will cover our transportation to and from the launch site. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!

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Innovation Expo 2019

May 5, 2019June 5, 2020
by Dakota

This past Friday, May 3, 2019, marked the annual Stevens Institute of Technology Innovation Expo. 189 senior projects were presented by individuals and teams from all four schools at Stevens: the College of Arts and Letters, the School of Business, the School of Systems and Enterprises, and the School of Engineering and Science.

Even Stevens’ mascot, Attila, dropped by!

Castle Point Rocketry occupied a series of tables in the Griffith Building, located beneath campus on the Hudson River. Alongside many other building-intensive teams, we presented our project to students, professors, Hoboken residents, and potential investors alike.

We brought out all of our toys for show and tell.

From 10:30am to 3:00pm, members of our team rotated through presenting at the table. Notable visitors included Attila the Duck (Stevens’s mascot), Dr. Nariman Farvardin (President of Stevens), Graham Boyd (our Regional Manager for SLM Solutions), and Bob Freno (Principal Member of Engineering Staff at L3 Technologies).

Our quarter-length airframe assembly was a crowd favorite.

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Official Stevens Article

November 15, 2018June 5, 2020
by Dakota

What do Elon Musk, Gen Z, and Castle Point Rocketry all have in common? We’re name-dropped in an article recently published by Stevens Institute of Technology.

A story regarding Castle Point Rocketry was circulated on the Stevens webpage. (And on all of the bulletin TVs around campus!) Following a meeting the team had with members of the Division of Communications and Marketing and the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science, the team’s enthusiasm about reaching the Karman line has officially been adopted into Stevens canon.

The authors of the article met not only with members of the team, but also spoke with a faculty advisor and a couple of our corporate sponsors. It’s always good for morale to hear yourselves called “ambitious and innovative” and “pioneering!”

You can read the full Stevens News article (and re-watch our initial pitch video) here.

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Meet Our Sponsors!

October 11, 2018June 5, 2020
by Dakota

Castle Point Rocketry is grateful to call a few key corporations our friends. Over the summer, we began reaching out for funding and mentorship. We would like to take a minute to personally thank our committed sponsors!

A&P Technology is supporting us through composites engineering. Among other applications, they work with giants such as GE to create light-weight, high-tensile, flight-appropriate materials. They’ve agreed to work with us on creating a well-developed fuselage!

The Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Aerojet Rocketdyne, a renowned rocket, missile, and probe designer. They have provided valuable feedback and are helping us achieve our fundraising goal!

We need some odd-ball valves, and Gosco Valves has the know-how! We’re grateful for their support and their history of good rapport with aeronautics research agencies!

L3 Technologies specializes in communications and reconnaissance systems. They’ve pledge a generous gift to develop our telemetry and avionics systems. Thanks to them, we’re on track to know how high our rocket goes!

Micro is a leader in metal injection molding and specialized, precision tubing fabrication. Not only are they supporting us financially, but they are assisting us with fabrication.

Northrop Grumman is well-known for their aerospace applications, including the Apollo Lunar Module. Upper-level management has reached out to us, and we are encouraged by their support!

Triton Space Technologies specializes in high-performance valves and aerospace propulsion. They are aiding us in creating custom cryogenic valves for our rocket, and we couldn’t be more grateful!

Don’t forget to check the Sponsors portion of our website for regular updates on all of our sponsors. Who knows… maybe with the launch of our crowdfunding campaign on Monday 15 October, we’ll see your name there, too!