# Early Years ## Founding - 2016 Spring {% hint style="warning" %} Incomplete second hand information: needs to be verified from members present during this era (Grant and Jacob Posner). {% endhint %} STAR was founded in Spring 2016 by a small group of students who were interested in model rocketry. The team's core activities consisted of building commercial-off-the-shelf model rockets and launching them from Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Park. Additionally, a few members were working toward National Association of Rocketry Level 1 certifications. By the end of this semester, there were around 10 members. ## NASA Student Launch - Fall 2016 to Spring 2017 Initial activities in the 2016-2017 School Year involved recruitment at the College of Engineering Activities Fair during the first week of school. After recruitment, a decision was made by the whole team (around 25 people at this point) to participate in NASA Student Launch. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://rocketry.gitbook.io/public/history-of-the-team/early-years.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.