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Team 7157 |
Alexander Eftimiades
Philip Manougian
Seth Gordon
Greg Maines
Ronnie Foreman
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Team 7158 |
Chris Schwinof
Chris Fann
David Sookhar
Jason Dickey
Tyler Skalabrin
Fish Khan
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Team 7159 |
Amanda Steckel
Ben Fann
EJ Eiras-Saunders
Jon Boruch
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We
entered three teams in the 2009 national Team
America Rocketry Challenge (TARC). Our team numbers were
7157,
7158, and 7159. The main challenge web
site is
http://www.rocketcontest.org/.
Teams
Last year we had over 20 members on three rocket
teams, but many of them graduated. This year we are starting with around 10 members from last year
and maybe 10 new members.
We created three teams around the returning members from last year's
teams. To be on a team you have to be a dues paying member of
Post 1010 and have your parents sign the permission form (Word,
PDF).
Members switched teams
up until the qualification flights in March. Each team had a leader and sub groups. Each team
built several rockets,
including test rockets and 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. We had a few
meetings of the old members in September 2008, but our first workshop
was October 25.
Our testing launches were at the Old
National Pike Park, east of New Market, Maryland (directions,
picture).
Their launch calendar and other information is at
http://www.narhams.org/. We will also traveled to the Great
Meadows site (directions,
map, picture), 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.
Wind speed is a big problem with our
rockets, so we check
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Launches |
- Saturday, Nov
22, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Dec 20, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Jan 24, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Feb 21, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Mar 7, Launch (VA)
- Saturday, Mar 14, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Mar 21, Launch (MD)
- Saturday, Mar 28, Launch (VA)
- Sunday, Apr 5, Launch (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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