bobkrech
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This is a CMASS announcement that NEMROC 2007 will be held at the Amesbury Middle School on Saturday, November 3 followed by the NEMROC launch on Sunday, November 4 at Woodsom Farm Park.
Over the summer we shifted the conference from Columbus Day weekend to November for several reasons. Columbus Day weekend is typically at the peak of leaf-peeker season, so a lot of folks go away and hotel rooms are hard to get. Additionally, many TARC teams have not been formed and we want to get these middle and high school students to come.
This year we would like to try to get as many new folks interested in rocketry as possible in line with the NAR 50,000 flight for the 50th NAR Anniversary in addition to our usual topics. In the past 12 months we have had over 400 first flights, and would really like to double that number before next August.
The presentation sessions will be separated into 3 categories: Advanced, Beginner and Craftsman/Competition. We have a lot of the program planned but as always I am looking for good speakers in all 3 areas so don't be shy.
For the advanced sessions, we will have speakers and would like some fresh faces to present on clustered and/or, multistage high power rockets, electronic deployment and other electronic widgets, and other big projects.
For the beginner sessions, we will have several build sessions, and will have speakers who can present a talk on the basics of rocket design, operations, construction and simulation.
Club Member Jim Flis of Fliskits, our lead sponsor, will be providing a special NEMROC kit and be supervising at least one of the building sessions, and we are hoping to get Hobbytown Nashua and/or Plastow involved as (a) participating vendor(s) to be the on-site black powder and AT motor vendor. Club member Howard Greenblat, the Massaschusetts Roadrunner motor distributor will be at the conference and the launch with a good supply of Roadrunner engines.
For the craftsman/competition sessions, we have and are are looking for folks who can give demonstration of techniques of scratch building, competition building, painting, paper rockets, gliders, etc.
We will also feature as a special atttraction the highly successful Weare Middle School TARC/SLI team who will have a booth with their rockets and instrumentation, along with a special presentation and video of their adventures in mid and hig power rocketry.
We also hope to have at least one video on rocketry running throughout the conference.
I would welcome your comments, suggestions, etc. here, and if you want to make a presentation or help out, send me an e-mail at my e-mail address below or [email protected]
The NEMROC website is https://www.nemroc.org but it's not up to date with the date changes. Blame me, I've been swamped with my paying job, but hopefully I'll get the correct dates and new stuff up by next week.
Bob Krech, CMASS Senior Advisor
[email protected]
[email protected]
https://www.cmass.org
https://www.nemroc.org
Over the summer we shifted the conference from Columbus Day weekend to November for several reasons. Columbus Day weekend is typically at the peak of leaf-peeker season, so a lot of folks go away and hotel rooms are hard to get. Additionally, many TARC teams have not been formed and we want to get these middle and high school students to come.
This year we would like to try to get as many new folks interested in rocketry as possible in line with the NAR 50,000 flight for the 50th NAR Anniversary in addition to our usual topics. In the past 12 months we have had over 400 first flights, and would really like to double that number before next August.
The presentation sessions will be separated into 3 categories: Advanced, Beginner and Craftsman/Competition. We have a lot of the program planned but as always I am looking for good speakers in all 3 areas so don't be shy.
For the advanced sessions, we will have speakers and would like some fresh faces to present on clustered and/or, multistage high power rockets, electronic deployment and other electronic widgets, and other big projects.
For the beginner sessions, we will have several build sessions, and will have speakers who can present a talk on the basics of rocket design, operations, construction and simulation.
Club Member Jim Flis of Fliskits, our lead sponsor, will be providing a special NEMROC kit and be supervising at least one of the building sessions, and we are hoping to get Hobbytown Nashua and/or Plastow involved as (a) participating vendor(s) to be the on-site black powder and AT motor vendor. Club member Howard Greenblat, the Massaschusetts Roadrunner motor distributor will be at the conference and the launch with a good supply of Roadrunner engines.
For the craftsman/competition sessions, we have and are are looking for folks who can give demonstration of techniques of scratch building, competition building, painting, paper rockets, gliders, etc.
We will also feature as a special atttraction the highly successful Weare Middle School TARC/SLI team who will have a booth with their rockets and instrumentation, along with a special presentation and video of their adventures in mid and hig power rocketry.
We also hope to have at least one video on rocketry running throughout the conference.
I would welcome your comments, suggestions, etc. here, and if you want to make a presentation or help out, send me an e-mail at my e-mail address below or [email protected]
The NEMROC website is https://www.nemroc.org but it's not up to date with the date changes. Blame me, I've been swamped with my paying job, but hopefully I'll get the correct dates and new stuff up by next week.
Bob Krech, CMASS Senior Advisor
[email protected]
[email protected]
https://www.cmass.org
https://www.nemroc.org
