Career
She is actively involved in National Association of Rocketry. She has been featured in several magazines, including Sport Rocketry. Her notable works include three separate national championships at the National Association of Rocketry"s Annual Meet (2006, 2008, 2010).
She is known for competing on the United States team in the World Space Modeling Championships in Serbia in 2010 and acting as assistant team manager of United States junior team in World Space Modeling Championships in Slovakia in 2012.
The Steele family has been involved with model rocketry since 2004. Kaitlyn (Katie) Savannah Steele was born in Murray, Utah.
She is the daughter of Robyn Palmer and Matt Steele. Steele currently attends Southern Utah University.
National level
Steele began her involvement in model rocketry at age eleven.
Steele competed in her first NARAM in 2004 in The Plains, Virginia. In 2005, she competed in West Chester, Ohio. In 2006, she competed in Phoenix, Arizona and earned her first national title.
She also placed first for her research and development report, entitled Experimental Determination of Drag Coefficients.
In 2007, she competed in Kalamazoo, Michigan, earning another first for her research and development report, A Comparison of Parachute Descent Rates. In 2008, the competition was again in The Plains, Virginia, where Steele earned her second national title.
In 2009, the competition moved to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where Steele placed fourth for her research and development report on simulator accuracy of low-powered models, and Steele earned her third national title in the 2010 competition in Pueblo, Colorado. She also placed second for her research and development report on developing a piston for cluster engine models.
Steele currently holds three national records in events A Cluster Altitude (2008), Doctorate Eggloft Altitude (2008), and F Streamer Duration (2009).
International level
Steele"s international career began in 2010. Steele placed 11th in S5 Scale Altitude, though she had the highest recorded altitude in the event. In 2011, Steele was invited to return to the International Team as an assistant team manager, alongside Quest Aerospace"s Bill Stine for the junior World Space Modeling Championships team in the 2012 competition in Liptovsky-Mikulas, Slovakia.
Steele has confirmed that she will be reprising her position as team manager at the FAI European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria in 2013.
