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Josh Barosin鈥檚 passion for rockets started in the first grade, when a friend took him to a launch event in Amesbury.

More than a decade later, Barosin was back at the same field as a member of the , conducting test flights with rockets called Peregrine Explorer and From Terra With Love.

鈥淚t鈥檚 been a full-circle journey for me,鈥� says Barosin, a mechanical engineering major from Newbury.

Barosin was unaware of the Rocketry Club when he chose 小猪视频; the club was just getting restarted following the COVID-19 pandemic. During his first week on campus, Barosin overheard another student in the dining hall talking about rockets. It was then-Rocketry Club President Aiden Skidmore 鈥�24. They struck up a conversation, and Barosin was invited to the club鈥檚 first meeting.

A few months later, Barosin became subsystem lead for vehicle avionics, which means he was in charge of the rocket鈥檚 electronic hardware and software, flight computer, sensors (like GPS and accelerometers) and recovery system electronics.

By his junior year, Barosin was club president. He helped grow membership from 20 to about 70 students, led the design and launch of multiple rockets and helped build the team鈥檚 first in-house flight computer.聽

He also played a key role in fundraising. During the university鈥檚 annual Days of Giving campaign, the Rocketry Club had the most donors of any student club or organization (raising nearly $2,500 from 117 donors), earning them a $2,500 challenge gift from the JJW Family Foundation.

鈥淎s a business minor, I got my act together and got us registered for Days of Giving, and we had a great turnout,鈥� he says. 鈥淭hat was a huge bonus for us.鈥�

Outside the club, Barosin has conducted space-related research through the university鈥檚 Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology and ceramics materials research through the Francis College of Engineering. He鈥檚 also gained industry experience at a manufacturing engineering co-op job at Vicor Power in Andover and an internship in advanced metal 3D printing at Seurat Technologies in Wilmington.

Though he鈥檚 considered pursuing aerospace professionally, he鈥檚 weighing how to balance his passion for rocketry with long-term career goals.

鈥淚'd love to work in this field, but I kind of want to work in a different field because I don't want to kill my love for the hobby,鈥� says Barosin, an Eagle Scout who is the first 小猪视频 student to earn a Level 2 High Power Rocketry Certification from the National Association of Rocketry.

For now, Barosin is focused on helping the Rocketry Club complete the , a nine-month program that tasks teams to design, build, test and launch a high-powered rocket and culminates with a final launch in Huntsville, Alabama, in April.

鈥淲ords cannot describe how much the Rocketry Club has helped me,鈥� Barosin says. 鈥淥ur mission isn鈥檛 so much about teaching you about rockets; we're trying to teach you how to take what you're learning in your engineering classes and apply that to a project and practice it in a real-world application.鈥�