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| | Raising Hispanic Awareness in Engineering |  |
| Date: | June 2005 |
| Type: | Demonstration |
| Group/Sponsors: | Capitol College, PerkinElmer Foundation, High Point High School |
| Location: | Capitol College, Laurel Maryland |
| MDRA Members: | David Smith, Dave Weber |
A five-day summer program in late June offered selected students to the program, Raising Hispanic Awareness in Engineering, the opportunity to work with professional engineers to build their own
rockets while learning about the mathematics, physics and engineering foundations necessary for a successful launch.
The program, which ran from June 21-25, was open to up to 10 students from High Point High School in Beltsville. PerkinElmer donated $10,000 in 2004 to establish the program, which is in its second year. The goal is to attract the next generation of the nation's fastest growing population to study math and science and - eventually - consider an engineering career.
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| | Cub Scouts | |
| Date: | July 2005 - ESL #87 - ESL #75 |
| Type: | Edicational |
| Group/Sponsors: | Cub Scout Pack 495 |
| Location: | Central Sod Farm, Centreville, Maryland |
| MDRA Members: | Rick Yslas, Jim Williams |
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| | Team American Rocketry Challenge (TARC) |  |
| Date: | Annual Event |
| Type: | Educational |
| Group/Sponsors: | National Association of Rocketry (NAR) and Aerospace Industries Association (AIA).
American Association of Physics Teachers and NASA. |
| Location: | The Plains, Virginia |
| MDRA Members: | Doug Beard, Glenn Davis, Mitch Guess, Richard Hickok, George Secrist, Ed Romani, Darren Wright, Jeff Taylor, Rob Bazinet, Jim Szypula, Fredrick Alp |
Fredrick Alp's team
launches "Egg Salad" at
ESL #82, March 2005 | |
An aerospace design and engineering event for teams of US secondary school students. Teams can be sponsored by schools or by non-profit youth organizations such as Scouts, 4-H, or Civil Air Patrol (but not the NAR or other rocketry organizations). The goal of TARC is to motivate students to pursue aerospace as an exciting career field. The event involves designing and building a one-stage or two-stage model rocket (3.3 pounds or less, using NAR-certified model rocket motors) that carries a payload of 1 or 2 raw Grade A Large eggs for a precise flight duration of 45 seconds, and then returns the eggs to earth un-cracked. Onboard timers are allowed; radio-control is not.
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| | Penn State University "Flying Lion" |  |
| Date: | 2004-2005 |
| Type: | Research Project |
| Group/Sponsors: | Penn State University Aerospace Engineering Department.
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| Location: | University Park, PA, MDRA Launch Sites |
| MDRA Members: | Brian Wadsley
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The Flying Lion's maiden flight
at ESL #82, March 2005 | |
Brian Wadsley and Dmytro Luciw have taken over a rocketry project originally designed to test electronics packages. Other than motors (provided by Brian and other MDRA members), PSU has provided them with all materials to construct a new rocket. It is their goal that it will become an ongoing test bench for many other aerospace research projects including materials testing, hybrid propellant experiments and telemetry systems such as RDAS. The "Flying Lion" had its first flights at MDRA's ESL #82 launch in Price, Maryland, March 5 & 6, 2005.
Dmytro and Brian will be returning to MDRA launches throughout 2005 and are hoping for the opportunity to fly at NASA's Wallops Island flight facility.
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| | Wings and Wheels | |
| Date: | June, 2005 |
| Type: | Demonstration |
| Group/Sponsors: | Queen Anne County Lions Club. |
| Location: | Kent Island Airport, Maryland |
| MDRA Members: | Dave Bullis, Bob Lussier |
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A one day event in which there are displays and demonstrations of different small aircraft and wheeled vehicles. Typically there is a car show, vendors, helicopter rides, auctions and over the past couple of years a static rocket display and demonstration of smaller rockets, up to the G and H range.
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| | Teaching | |
| Date: | Spring 2002 |
| Type: | Educational |
| Group/Sponsors: | Randolph-Macon Academy |
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| MDRA Members: | Dave Weber |
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Teaching for several days in their Aerospace Curriculum. Culminated in a demonstration rocket launch.
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