Georgia Tech competed in the 2019 Spaceport America® Cup: Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competiton, near Las Cruces New Mexico, from June 18-22, 2019. Georgia Tech flew a two-stage, student-built rocket, and won 1st place in the 30,000 ft COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) category. GEORGIA TECH WON 3 AWARDS AT THE 2019 SPACEPORT AMERICA® CUP: • 1st Place 30k COTS category • 2nd place, "Best Overall Submission" • Charles Hoult Award for Modeling & Simulation. The Charles Hoult Award for Modeling & Simulation, was to recognize excellence in math modeling and computational analysis. Four team members authored the paper, "Reliable Modeling and Experimental Validation of Staging Events For Model Rockets." "Rocket Designed by Georgia Tech Student Engineers Soars Above the Rest at the Spaceport America Cup Competition" provides a glimpse of what it took to design, build, and fly their award-winning rocket, Sustain Alive. You can read the article here: https://ae.gatech.edu/news/2019/06/rocket-designed-georgia-tech-student-engineers-soars-above-rest-spaceport-america-cup 120 teams of university students from 14 countries from around the world participated in the 2019 Spaceport America® Cup. Spaceport's website says the Cup is "The world's largest intercollegiate rocket engineering conference and competition." Still photos, audio, renderings, and some video segments courtesy of the Georgia Tech Ramblin' Rocket Club. SPONSORS: • Student Government Association, Georgia Institute of Technology • Georgia Space Grant Consortium • Pscolka Woodworks, Cokeburg, Pennsylvania • Georgia Tech, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering • The Finley Family SPECIAL MENTION: • Spaceport America® Cup • Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) SPECIAL THANKS: • Dr. Joe Pscolka, Jr. • Leonard Coleman • Ernie Marsh • Lori Skillings • Dr. Jeff Jagoda Music: • Green, Ogdar. "Elegant Piano Logo" Pond5.com • Slevin, Vyacheslav. "Inspirational Epic Trailer Uplifting Cinematic Soundtrack" Pond5.com