Record-setting flights in amateur rocketry

Question

It appears that amateur groups have launched rockets to space (above the Karman line), but these were flights of commercial (Pegasus) rockets by amateur teams.

What I am interested in is record-setting flights using rockets of amateur design and construction - highest altitude attained, highest velocity attained, longest duration under useful thrust. Has any rocket of amateur design/construction launched from essentially sea-level altitude and made it all the way up to or above the Karman line?

Answer 1

From Wikipedia:

On May 17, 2004, Civilian Space eXploration Team (CSXT) successfully achieved the first officially verified flight of an amateur high-power rocket into space, achieving an altitude of 116 km (72 mi).[7]

Prior to that, the Reaction Research Society on November 23, 1996, launched a solid-fuel rocket, designed by longtime member George Garboden, to an altitude of 80 km (50 mi) from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.[8]

Third place in this list reached an altitude of 33 km.