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UCF Alumni Startup Soarce is Forbes 30 Under 30 Winner

February 20, 2026
Soarce’s path to revolutionizing the world of material science grew from the ashes of a blown-up rocket experiment while Derek Saltzman ’23 and Mason Mincey ’23 were still engineering students at UCF. They had been tasked in a semester-long class assignment to build a carbon fiber rocket that would successfully carry the professor’s payload. While their design may…