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ROCK Section 622 Annual Business Meeting July 2010 Agenda  o  Call to order /welcome --   Called to order at approx. 10:40   In attendance:  Brian, Robb, Roger, Chris, Carl   o  Old... [More]

ROCK Section 622 Annual Business Meeting July 2010 The following notes are supplied by Brian Coyle in lieu of the Secretary's absence and are provided in unedited form for your information.  Thank you Brian!! Agenda  o... [More]

Robb Haskins sent an email to the Club leadership letting us know that a Rocket film called "Aerojet Dade: An unfinished Journey" will be screened at the Central Florida Film Festival, Friday September 4, at 11:15am- 12:10pm and... [More]

As part of their six-week summer program, the kids at Sunny Side Children's Village in St. Cloud built and flew rockets. ROCK volunteers were enlisted to supervise the construction, pass along some rocketry tidbits and assist with... [More]

On March 16, 2009, Judge Reggie Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia made a final ruling in the case of Tripoli Rocketry Association, Inc. and National Association of Rocketry v. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco &... [More]

Did you know that UCF students are involved in a Sub Orbital Rocket Project? The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) have an aggressive 2009 schedule to become the first student rocket enterprise to reach the edge of... [More]

NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation Studios, is conducting a naming contest for its... [More]

The launch date for the Northeast Florida Association of Rocketry's February launch in Bunnell, Florida, has been changed to February 7 - the same day as our ROCK launch. NEFAR was forced to change their launch date because of the Daytona 500... [More]

Based on past TARC surveys, we have also realized that young people visit YouTube a lot, so AIA has established a TARC presence on YouTube. Their site has on it the entire "How to Build and Fly a Model Rocket" training video for TARC teams,... [More]

ROCK Fall Open 2008 - A NAR sanctioned Open Meet! Get out your contest birds and prepare to fly next month at ROCK! Date: November 1, 2008 Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Events:   1/2A RG (Rocket Glider) 1/4A PD (Parachute Duration) 1/2A... [More]

January 26, 2008 Call to order / Welcome  Brian called to order our meeting at 10:15AM.  Five members were in attendance.  Old business RTF rockets: Russ Mozier made a donation to the Club of some Quest RTF kits. Brian... [More]

Registration is now open for the world's largest rocket contest -- the Team America Rocketry Challenge--challenging participants to compete for $60,000 in prizes and scholarships and a trip to next year's international air show in Paris. ... [More]

On Saturday June 7th 2008 ROCK Section #622 will hold a NAR sanctioned Open Meet. The meet will be held at our club's monthly launch at Little-Big-Econ State Forest on Country Road 426 in Oviedo. The meet will begin at 10 am and will continue until... [More]

The Tripoli Tampa Rocketry Association (TTRA) has a acquired a new field and is launching (with a waiver to 12,000') on the third Saturday of each month. The new field is located north of Plant City, approximately eight miles north of I-4. Maps... [More]

Congratulations go out to ROCK members Carl Campbell and Chris Heffron! Each successfully completed their High Power Level 1 certification at sister-section NEFAR on Saturday April 12th. Chris flew his newly acquired and gorgeously finished... [More]

A January edition of the Seminole Chronicle features a two-page article about ROCK. The reporter, Whitney Hamrick, did a marvelous job capturing the whole experience of the club launch and the photographs are striking. The newspaper is... [More]

Russ Mozier set up a ROCK merchandise shop on cafe press for us to share our affiliation in style! So not only can you "wear your colors" but you can also support ROCK--Cafe Press will send a portion of merchanidse cost to us. Our shop... [More]

The MSU Space Cowboys Middle School Launch Challenge is a contest for middle school students (6-8th grades) to design, build, test, and fly a rocket with a scientific payload to 800 ft. AGL. Emphasis will also be placed on two written papers that... [More]

At the TARC finals on May 19, NAR and 4H announced a national partnership. The purpose of this alignment is to get more kids to fly rockets and form rocket clubs which will lead to more TARC teams, more people joining NAR and more kids becoming... [More]

Minutes of the R.O.C.K. Annual Business Meeting June 2, 2007 Rocketry of Orlando's Community Kids Call to order Brian Coyle called the meeting to order at 10:20AM. 9 members and officers were present. Officer Reports Treasurer... [More]

ROCK members attend 2007 Winter Nationals launch. Several ROCK Section members traveled to West Palm Beach in January for the annual TRA Winter Nationals launch. This event is hosted by the Florida Space modelling Association/Tripoli West Palm... [More]