The NASA Student Launch rocketry competition is for high school and university teams. The University of North Dakota has a team called the Frozen Fury, made up of undergraduate and graduate students in various disciplines. The goals of the activity are to give students hands-on research experience and to teach them the basic principles of rocketry and teamwork. Its unique in that it offers students the opportunity to build a high-power but safe rocket to actually be launched from near a NASA center (MSFC). Products participants complete include timely reports for NASA.

From NASA:
The NASA Student Launch Projects challenges middle, high school and college students to design, build and launch a reusable rocket to one mile above ground level while carrying a scientific or engineering payload. The Academic Affairs Office at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages SLP. It comprises two project elements: NASA Student Launch Initiative, or SLI, for middle and high school teams; and NASA University Student Launch Initiative, or USLI, for community college and university teams.