Rocketry and Aviation Engineering Association
Founding chapter: Irvine High School, CAihsraea@gmail.com
Student-led · Irvine, California · Founded 2025
The Rocketry and Aviation Engineering Association is a student-led organization empowering the next generation of aerospace engineers through hands-on projects, competitions, outreach, and real-world engineering experiences.
RAEA is a student-led organization dedicated to aviation, aerospace, rocketry, and engineering. Students go beyond classroom learning by designing, building, testing, and presenting engineering projects while connecting with universities, aerospace organizations, and their communities.
Hands-on projects, prototypes, CAD, and fabrication.
Workshops in aerospace, physics, CAD, rocketry, and aviation.
Universities, industry tours, engineers, aerospace organizations.
Student-led projects, competitions, outreach, chapters.
| 50+ | Active members | Irvine High School chapter |
| 2+ | Community outreach sites | Culverdale, Wilson |
| Multiple | University & aerospace connections | UCI, UCLA, UCSD, Caltech, AIAA |
| Multiple | Hands-on engineering projects | Gliders, rockets, CAD, simulation |
Students design, build, test, and improve aerospace-related systems.
Hands-on workshops introducing students to tools and engineering concepts.
Internal and external engineering competitions, including TARC.
Tours, collaborations, workshops, and conversations with engineering organizations.
Students teach aerospace and STEAM concepts to younger students.
RAEA supports students bringing aerospace opportunities to their own schools.
Students designed and built lightweight gliders while learning aerodynamics, stability, lift, drag, weight, and flight testing.
RAEA members toured VAST Space's Long Beach facility and saw how a commercial space station is engineered and built.
Each relationship is described as it actually stands. Nothing is labelled an official partnership unless it has been formally confirmed.
Universities
Aerospace organizations
Industry
Community
RAEA partnered with America On Track — Emerging Leaders for Civic Engagement — to deliver a Balloon Rocket STEAM workshop at the Culverdale and Wilson sites, covering thrust, motion, Newton’s Laws, acceleration, and engineering design.
RAEA is expanding beyond its founding chapter at Irvine High School. Students at other high schools can establish chapters and build their own aerospace communities.
Schedule
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