Archive for Vince Huegele

| October 28, 2014
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NAR dues now $25 for 25 year olds

NAR has just dropped the dues rate for rocketeers aged 21-25 to $25 a year. This is for full membership benefits (insurance, magazine, etc.) that previously were $62. The age range for this rate was 16-20, but it was expanded at the last NAR board meeting to be age 16-25. This is not a limited time discount, but a new rate structure to attract and accommodate the growing number of post TARC and college rocketeers.

The new enrollment form will look like this

SR (Age 26 and older) Join – 1 Year ($62) – Regular Magazine
SR (Age 21-25) Join – 1 Year ($25) – Regular Magazine

Tell your student friends the price is right to join NAR.

http://www.nar.org/join-nar

Category: News |
| August 11, 2014
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NARAM 56 attracts visitors from across the Galaxy

One of the best NARAM in recent years was well attended with many rockets (and no raccoons) launched from ‘A to O’ in motor size. The weekend sport launch included the student and intern flights mentioned in the post below while the rest of the week was competition and evening presentations. For the fifty-sixth year rocketeers convened to renew acquaintances, hear industry announcements, learn new skills and fly more rockets. Read more

Category: Launches |
| June 29, 2014
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Scenes of ST 2014

It was another wonderful June weekend of rockets in the green hills of Tennessee. Southern Thunder presents itself as a showcase of rocketry great and small and rocketeers young and old. Here are some moments of the longest days of 2014, because of the epic fun we had and that summer solstice thing. Read more

Category: Launches |
| May 21, 2014
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Ten Years of Southern Thunder

For ten years the Tennessee hills have echoed the roar of Southern Thunder rockets followed by oohs and ahhs of the flyers. Here are some scenes of the past fun, if you need incentive to plan to come.

At Southern Thunder

What memories will we build in this eleventh round? Be there and share them.

Category: Launches |
| May 6, 2014
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Smoke Trailing TARC 2014

It was another active student rocketry school year for HARA as North Alabama had ten teams out of the total of thirteen for the state. Besides these teams there were five others from three schools in middle Tennessee that we assisted. For all the rockets fired it was the first time since 2009 that only one team from Huntsville made the top hundred nationally. That sounds like quite a bust from the six teams that went to the finals last year, except Read more

Category: TARC |
| April 30, 2014
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Falcons Counting Down to TARC Finals

This is a nice article written by Falcon team member Jack Aslan that captures the excitement of preparing for the Finals May 10. The Huntsville team is the only group from Alabama this year to attend.

http://nextgen.yourhub.com/blog/rocket-challenge-update

2012 TARC finalist Victor Murphy recently put into words the impact the TARC program can have saying, “This is life changing. I think this has significantly changed my career choice. Before I wanted to design and build houses, but for sure now I want to be an aeronautic engineer.”

Category: Outreach |
| April 22, 2014
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A Good Friday at Horizon

Gifted specialist teacher Beth Boro smiles each year HARA comes out to fly rockets for her students because we’ve been doing it for a long time. “I first heard about you guys in the late eighties when I was teaching at another school. You came to show the students your rockets then and you still are now.” Bill Cooke and I were able to continue the trend Friday morning, April 18 by launching at Horizon Elementary for their Spaceweek celebration Read more

Category: Outreach |
| March 18, 2014
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2014 TARC Regional Launches Many but Scrambles Few

tarc1The HARA March Madness TARC launch was a fantastic success with over a hundred people attending at Bragg farm on a mild calm day. Ten teams from six schools made a total of 43 flights, almost twice the number of launches from last year. The skill of the students in their flights was very impressive. Read more

Category: TARC |
| January 25, 2013
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HARA Launch at Lincoln

By Vince Huegele

We don’t get many requests for launch demonstrations after Thanksgiving, but that’s when Lincoln Academy called us to help them with their Spaceweek. They had heard there was a rocket club in town and found our website. Read more

Category: Outreach |
| May 18, 2012
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HARA’s School Launches

by Vince Huegele

As the 2012 school year winds down HARA has been busy with launch demonstrations. On May 3 we were set to fly for the 4-H Urban Youth Farm Day at the A&M field in Hazel Green, but steady showers scrubbed the launch. The facility has a building that could hold all 300 kids so 4-H held the event inside. Read more

Category: Outreach |
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