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Team 1 - 6129 |
Mark Mendelevitz
Ben Austin
Paul Choe
Marcus Lima
Seth Reeder
Seth Gordon
Greg Maines
Ronnie Foreman
(graduation picture)
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Team 2 - 6160 |
James Brent
Anthony Morales
Chris Muller
Chris Fann
Andrew Edgley
Tiffany Chau
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Team 3 - 6161 |
Chris Schwinof
David Sookhar
Alexandre Filie
Alexander Eftimiades
Philip Manougian
Amanda Steckel
Steven Harvey
David Harvey
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We
entered three teams in the 2008 national Team
America Rocketry Challenge (TARC). The main challenge web
site is
http://www.aia-aerospace.org/tarc/.
Teams
Last year we had 16 members on three rocket
teams. This year we started with around 30 potential participants.
We set up three teams around the returning members from last year's
teams. To be on a team you had to be a dues paying member of
Post 1010 and have your parents sign the permission form (Word format).
Some members switched teams
up until the qualification flights at the end of March, and some members
dropped out along the way. Each team has a leader and sub groups. Each team
built several rockets,
including backups for their best models.
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Workshops and Launches We
met during normal Exploring Program meetings on Wednesdays and also on
Saturdays for work sessions and launches. Our initial meeting
was in late August 2007.
Our testing launches were at the Old
National Pike Park, east of New Market, Maryland (directions).
Their launch calendar and other information is at
http://www.narhams.org/. We also traveled to the Great
Meadows (directions,
site map) site, near The Plains, Virginia,
off I66, west of Manassas, to finish our qualification launches. The
calendar for that site is at
http://www.novaar.org.
We always need parents to drive to the
launch sites and to bring snacks.
Wind speed is a big problem with our
rockets, so we check
http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi before we launch. |
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Launches |
- Saturday,
Aug 18, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Oct 20, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Nov 17, Launch (MD)
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Wednesday,
Dec 26, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Jan 26, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Feb 16, Launch (MD)
- Sunday, Mar
2, Launch (VA)
- Saturday, Mar 15, Launch (MD)
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Thursday, Mar 27, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Mar
29, Launch (VA)
- Saturday, Apr 5, Launch (VA)
- Sunday, Apr 6, Launch (VA)
- Friday-Saturday, May 16-17,
National Fly Off (VA)
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Resources
The Internet and email are a very important
resource for our team. Each member should sign up for the TARC
Yahoo
Group and review the recent emails and files.
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TARC Information |
Team Information |
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