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Gregory Elling - gpe1
Ovid, NY
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NAR #88163
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| Experience: | As a young man I got to play with the rockets that my big brother built and broke. He would let me have them once they were broken, Do you know what happens when you launch a broken rocket? “Hit the deck!!!!” As a father ‘ Because I never grew up’ I joined the local Boy Scout Troop and became an assistant scoutmaster and a merit badge councilor. After several trips to the Smithsonian in DC and a trip to Florida with the family in 2000 I became addicted to rocketry at NASA. Mostly Estes models and finally getting my Level 1 at PYRO on June 7, 2008. |
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My goal is to maintain a safe and exciting craft, hobby, skill and learning experience to focus on rocketry for youth with adult facilitation. Guidance for youth is my way of helping them to take an initiative in what they want to achieve. |
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Vice President
Ken Allen
Everywhere
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Al Swackhammer
Appalachian NY
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NAR #34644 TRA #90
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Mike Dutch
Rochester NY
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NAR #76705 TRA#07965
| | Experience: | I started flying rockets at the age of 11, when my father brought home a couple rockets from one of his business trips for my brother and myself. From that day until I was 17, (and girls took over my life), I built and flew hundreds of rockets. Before I stopped, I had a fleet of over 40 rockets that I flew several times over, of which 3/4's of them were scratched built. I had actually made it to level 3, of 5 levels in the then Estes rocketry experience levels. I didn't go any higher than that because I just decided to have fun and build and fly rockets instead competing further. I got back into rockets again in 1997 when my brother-in-law showed me an Aerotech Initiator starter kit, which I immediately had to buy. I then flew several rockets in several different school fields until found a local rocket club in 2000 to join. Upon joining that club I also became involved with my first big launch with NYPOWER 2000. I was also involved with being a part of the officership of that club from almost day one too. I have been involved with running a club and being a part of several NYPOWER's, including running 02 and X, up until the end of 2003. At that time, an excellent group of fellow members and myself decided to form a new Organization and find a bigger and better field. We did that with the formation of the Potter Youth Rocketry Organization, and with this great organization, my experience will continue to grow. |
| Goals for the Organization: | It is my goal to help youths and youth groups from all walks of life learn to do better in school, and in life, though the fun hobby of rocketry. I would like to see this organization grow into a group of great fellow rocketeers who will help us achieve these goals, and to have a fun, and relaxed time doing this. I feel that there is nothing greater than seeing the eyes of a kid light up upon pushing the button of their first rocket being launched. I hope that all of you great fellow rocketeers will come out to help us to help the kids do this. |
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Outreach Coordinator
Mike Sprague - msprague
Macedon NY
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NAR #87022
| | Experience: | Science was always one of my favorite subjects in school, and when I was 13
I received my first rocket ... the old Centuri Screaming Eagle. It made a
small number of flights on my Grandfathers farm, until one day on a C
engine, the wind took it far, far away and I never saw it again. But I was
hooked. I continued building rockets, both kit and some scratch built,
through my teen years until I left home for college. That was the end of
rockets for me, until my son was a Bear rank Cub Scout. One of his
potential electives was to build a model rocket, so I picked up the Estes
Gnome kit for him ... and a larger rocket for me. I was hooked again.
Turned out my parents had saved all my old rocket stuff, which is kind of
cool to have again. By the time my son was a Webelos Scout, I ran the his
Den's Science Pin achievement, and as part of that, they all built rockets
and learned the basic science behind them. They were launched at the Packs
spring picnic, becoming an annual tradition, and I have been helping the
Pack with this ever since. I had joined PYRO by this time, along with my
two kids, and they have been going through the NAR TREK program. I picked
up several of the essential rocketry books, as well as the RocSim software,
and through simulation, the latter taught me many, many things. Since then,
I have become a Space Exploration merit badge consular for the Boy Scouts,
and have run a number of large Cub Scout build and fly rocket sessions,
along with helping other youth organizations with building or launching
rockets. In the very near future, I plan to get Level 1 certified ... I just
have to find the time to finish that rocket. |
| Goals for the Organization: | My goal is to share both the fun and the science of model rocketry with
youth. Science makes a lot more sense when, rather than just learning it,
you can see it in action. Once that door is open, others follow, hopefully
inspiring them to greater accomplishments.
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