"The Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) promotes sounding rocketry through annual Intercollegiate Rocket Launch Competitions, Workshops, and precollege outreach efforts, and in the future through public sounding rocket Expos and professional conferences."
https://soundingrocket.org/default.aspx
Looks quite interesting...there is even a local college here in Huntsville, AL that will be participating in 2010!