The 2025 International Rocket Engineering Competition - By the Numbers

The 18th Annual International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) took place June 9th-14th, 2025, in its new home, Midland, Texas. This year’s event was the largest ever with 172 university teams from around the world accepted to compete. 142 of these teams completed all technical and safety reviews to launch their projects. With over 7,000 students from the USA and 22 other countries participating, it is the largest international university rocket engineering competition in the world. More than 2,000 competitors were in attendance.