let me help you out a bit more...
Without experience building and flying something like this, built to a budget, and a schedule, and with a team (good and bad there), that is competing with other events, activities, and interest., and where a 'mistake' can likely reduce you project to road kill, not to mention the issue of weather affecting your schedule.....
So here is how you succeed. Under Promise, and Over Deliver... early.
Someone on the team needs to be the program manager, needs to create a realistic schedule, that has failure(s) built in, a detailed bill of materials (including tools like specific sized drill bits) and needs to have a test plan. Fail to do this and you will not be successful. Everything is going to take twice as long as you think, tests are going to fail, and you will have at least one rocket recovered with a shovel. i have told teams I have mentored, buy for 3, build at least two, hope you have 1 by the last flight.
I had a 'high school team' I mentored, I told them that I would only do it if they had a schedule (in writing with tasks and activities and estimated hours for each task) , a test plan (doesn't need to be hard but needs to be done, ahead of time, correctly) , and written plans for the build (think - write- plan... then do).
Aggressive, out of the box, is going to be very difficult to while Under Promise, and Over Deliver... early.
Good Luck.....