Among its initiatives, the NAR offers the Gleda M. Estes Scholarship for the Advancement of Young Women in STEM, providing $3,000 scholarships annually to deserving recipients. The National Association of Rocketry (NAR) is a non-profit tax-exempt scientific organization dedicated to consumer safety, youth education, and the advancement of technology in the hobby of spacemodeling (sport rocketry) in the United States. Founded in 1957, the NAR is the oldest and largest spacemodeling organization in the world with over 8,000 members and approximately 220 affiliated clubs across the U.S.