Competition Results

Below are results from the completed years of the FAR-OUT competition. Bolded titles received awards or should receive equivalent certificates. Public scores are not available but individual scores can be made available to the team for objective scoring categories. For a list of this year’s participating teams, please look here.

2025-26

Category A - 3,000’-15,000’

1st Place: Wildcat Rocket Engineering Club (WREC), University of Arizona (AZ)
2nd Place: PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)
3rd Place: UVU Space Program, Utah Valley University (UT)
4th Place: SimLE SimBa, Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk PL)
5th Place: Florida Rocket Lab, University of Florida (FL)
7th Place: PUT Rocketlab, Poznan University of Technology (Poznan PL)

Not Fully Recovered:

AGH Space Systems, AGH University of Krakow (Krakow PL)
Propulsion UNAM, Universidade Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico City MX)

Not Launched:

SKA Rocketry, Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw PL)

Category B: - 20,000’-50,000’

1st Place: WISP, University of Wisconsin (WI)

Not Fully Recovered:

UTK Senior Design Hybrid, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)

Exhibition
Not Launched:
SSTA Big Liquid MkII , University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)

Most Efficient Engine (Hybrid): UVU Space Program, Utah Valley University (UT)

Most Efficient Engine (Liquid): PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)

Best Podium Presentation: UVU Space Program, Utah Valley University (UT)

Best Technical Report: SKA Rocketry, Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw PL)

Best Launch Ops: PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)

Best GSE: PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)

2024-25

Category A - 3,000’-15,000’

1st Place: Highlander Space Program, University of California, Riverside (CA)
2nd Place: Norco College Rocketry, Norco Community College (CA)
3rd Place: Columbia Space Initiative, Columbia University (NY)

Category B - 20,000’-50,000’

1st Place: PUT Rocketlab, Poznan University of Technology (Poland)
2nd Place: Oronos Polytechnique, Polytechnique Montreal (Quebec, Canada)

Category C - 50,000’-150,000’

1st Place: Student Space Technology Association - Liquids, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)

Most Efficient Engine - Hybrid: PUT Rocketlab, Poznan University of Technology (Poland)

Most Efficient Engine - Liquid: Highlander Space Program, University of California, Riverside (CA)

Best Podium Presentation: Columbia Space Initiative, Columbia University (NY)

2023-24

Category A - 5,000’-15,000’

1st Place: Norco College Rocketry, Norco Community College (CA)

Category B - 15,000’-50,000’

1st Place: Student Space Technology Association, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)
2nd Place: Columbia Space Initiative, Columbia University (NY)

Most Efficient Engine - Hybrid: Norco College Rocketry, Norco Community College (CA)

Best Podium Presentation: Columbia Space Initiative, Columbia University (NY)