First Prize to ITU Vefa Team in the USA

ITU Vefa Team became the world champion in the ten thousand feet category of the US-based Spaceport America Cup’24 rocket competition.

Istanbul Technical University continues to attract attention with the achievements of its student teams in international competitions in 2024, which it declared as the “Year of Global Impact”. ITU Vefa Aviation Team, which participated in the US-based “Spaceport America Cup’24” rocket competition, in which 152 teams from 20 countries participated, won the first prize in the ten thousand feet category.

Our Rector Prof. Dr. İsmail Koyuncu congratulated the ITU Vefa Aviation Team, for which he is the consultant, for winning the first place in the inter-university rocket engineering competition with the following words: “I congratulate our ITU Vefa Team, which won the championship by leaving the world’s prestigious universities behind and wish them many more successes.”

Enthusiastic welcome back home

ITU Vefa Aviation Team was welcomed by our Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Ali Deniz, ITU members and the families of our students at Istanbul Airport on June 30. Our Vice-Rector congratulated the Vefa Aviation Team with the words “I wholeheartedly congratulate you all for this success and the valuable efforts you have made, which makes our country and ITU proud. With this degree you ran, and I believe that from now on you will fly. You can be sure that ITU’s support to our project teams, which reveal the meaning of being an ITU member with such achievements, will continue to grow stronger.”

We congratulate our team and wish them continued success.