July Minutes:  7-28-2004

 

Attendees:

Scott Goebel, Kristian Johnson, Gregg Carter, Jerry Selensky, Joe Kasel, Mark Smeiska, Fred Jarosch, Dean Gelinskey, David Go, Walt Evans, Tom Chodkowski, Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes, Kurt Schachner, Jim Moroney and Kurt Newmann

 

Treasury Report read

 

June minutes read

 

Report from ECOF 2004

78 flyers that registered and 256 flights

 

August will be a busy month for outreach. Professor Carol Lee Saffioti Hughes and Mary Day are scheduling a week long rocketry and astronomy summer course for 15 or so middle schoolers with WOOSH rounding up the program by assisting the kids with the build up and launching of egglofters. Rather than go the easy way and buy kits, I have suggested that we use the BTC suggestion of building shrouded egglofters from the plans on the web site.

This will occur on August 26 and 27. I cannot be there on the 27th for the launch, please volunteer to help.

 

We have been contacted by a Cub Scout pack that would like us to stop by and help the kids with our famous rocketry 101 presentation and then build rockets.  Pack 109 from Menomonee Falls has scheduled us in on Sunday August 15th for the building session. They will then join us at the sod farm launch in September to launch their rockets.

 

Review of the possible exclusivity agreement with Tim Lehr to be our exclusive high power motor vendor at our club launches.  It was voted and passed that Tim will be exclusively selling high power rocket motors at Richard Bong State Park with the exception of national events, example NARCON and NSL.

 

October 16- 18th is the UW Parkside Family fair. The director of security has asked us to come in to set up some type of demonstration during the weekend and has offered to give us a launch range within easier walking distance of the campus to show off our stuff. Put this down on your calendar.

 

October 22-24 is Midwest Power II. If anyone wants to go see some of the biggest baddest rockets ever flown, this will be the place to be.  No additional information is currently available on the MPII web site.

 

NARCON and the CD is almost done and looks great.  Guy Michealson from Rocketman Parachutes agreed to be our main speaker at NARCON.  He asked us to pay his plain fair.  Vote on event director for the next meeting. 

People are very curious about the NARCON treasury report.  Jim Moroney made a motion to have a NARCON treasury report available.  Dean Gelinskey seconded it motion passed.

 

Meeting was adjourned and we worked on Micro Maxx rockets till 9:00 pm for August sod farm launch.