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The Gentle Folk in Lab Coats TARC team from Fairhaven (MA) High School are among the top 100 TARC finalists for 2015!
Congratulations to Paul, Jared, Connor, Tristin, Brandon, AJ, Nicole, and Pike.
Thank you to all the hard working CMASS volunteers who make launches possible and fun.
Please help: The Gentle Folk in Lab Coats (aka FHS Rocket Team) have a GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/rmk6e8c
This is the only TARC team going to the 2015 finals from Northern New England (MA, RI, VT, NH, ME).
The team expanded to 8 members this year, which was great for productivity, but now makes traveling to the finals more expensive.
* Any contributions are greatly appreciated *
This is the fifth year for Paul, Jared and Connor and their second time to the finals.
They wisely expanded the team this year, adding several more enthusiastic members, and all their hard work has paid off.
The team produced 5 different rockets and flew many test flights in the last half of 2014.
Four rockets with 3D printed fins and one finless rocket that will not be forgotten by all who witnessed it - or ever flown again.
On March 21st the team drove 100 miles to the launch as light snow was falling.
Snowfall tapered off during the first hour of the launch window.
Winds stayed extremely low and the team kept flying.
Three hours into the launch, with only an hour of flying time left, the team finally got the excellent practice flight they had been looking for since last year.
They immediately flew their three qualification flights with their last 3 engines, flying the last qualification flight 5 minutes before the close of the launch event.
Their first two qualification flights were only 5 and 13 feet off from the 800 ft goal, and had good recoveries, with scores of 11 and 27.
These added together to a low enough score (38) to get to the 2015 TARC finals.
The cut off for the top 100 teams was a combined score of 40 or less.
If one of the team's flights were just 3 feet further from goal or one second further outside the time window, they would not be among the finalists this year.
TARC keeps getting more and more competitive each year.
I am very proud of my son Paul and all the other hard working members of the TARC team.
It is now, and has been for the last 5 years, an honor to be their rocketry mentor.
Good Job team!
Congratulations to Paul, Jared, Connor, Tristin, Brandon, AJ, Nicole, and Pike.
Thank you to all the hard working CMASS volunteers who make launches possible and fun.
Please help: The Gentle Folk in Lab Coats (aka FHS Rocket Team) have a GoFundMe page:
https://www.gofundme.com/rmk6e8c
This is the only TARC team going to the 2015 finals from Northern New England (MA, RI, VT, NH, ME).
The team expanded to 8 members this year, which was great for productivity, but now makes traveling to the finals more expensive.
* Any contributions are greatly appreciated *
This is the fifth year for Paul, Jared and Connor and their second time to the finals.
They wisely expanded the team this year, adding several more enthusiastic members, and all their hard work has paid off.
The team produced 5 different rockets and flew many test flights in the last half of 2014.
Four rockets with 3D printed fins and one finless rocket that will not be forgotten by all who witnessed it - or ever flown again.
On March 21st the team drove 100 miles to the launch as light snow was falling.
Snowfall tapered off during the first hour of the launch window.
Winds stayed extremely low and the team kept flying.
Three hours into the launch, with only an hour of flying time left, the team finally got the excellent practice flight they had been looking for since last year.
They immediately flew their three qualification flights with their last 3 engines, flying the last qualification flight 5 minutes before the close of the launch event.
Their first two qualification flights were only 5 and 13 feet off from the 800 ft goal, and had good recoveries, with scores of 11 and 27.
These added together to a low enough score (38) to get to the 2015 TARC finals.
The cut off for the top 100 teams was a combined score of 40 or less.
If one of the team's flights were just 3 feet further from goal or one second further outside the time window, they would not be among the finalists this year.
TARC keeps getting more and more competitive each year.
I am very proud of my son Paul and all the other hard working members of the TARC team.
It is now, and has been for the last 5 years, an honor to be their rocketry mentor.
Good Job team!