Spaceport America hosts the Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition (IREC) annually out at Las Cruces, New Mexico, where over 150 student teams around the entire world come to compete in various apogee and propulsion divisions, share designs and technical knowledge, and network with some of the largest Aerospace and Engineering companies in the world, such as Blue Origin, Virgin Orbit, Marotta, Northrup Grumman, and more.