Kurt Schlosser:

A handful of teams from the Seattle area and another from southeastern Washington state made a strong showing in the finals this month of the American Rocketry Challenge, the world’s largest student rocket contest.

Competition concluded on June 20 and a virtual awards ceremony was held on Monday. The Argonauts, a team from WISE Camps in Bellevue, Wash., finished eighth among the 100 best teams in the country. Five other Seattle-area teams also placed in the finals: