A group of undergraduates from the University of Southern California became the first students ever to launch a rocket into space, as WIRED reported last week. The rocket, Traveler IV, reached an altitude of 339,800 feet and a top speed of 3,386 miles per hour. (For reference, that's about six miles higher than Blue Origin's first flight).
https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-group-of-students-built-and-launched-a-rocket-to-space/