This is the archive of the 2006/2007 Rocketry Project for the Abbie 4-H club in Pleasanton, California. You can see what we're up to this year by going to the Rocketry Project Main Page.
For the Spring 2007 season, we met for an hour every other week, either Saturday at 11 a.m. or Sunday at 2 p.m., LUNAR launches were the exceptions: we met at the March launch at 9a.m. and at the May "night launch" at 5pm.
| Saturday Dec 16, 2006 11:00 | Plan: Meet each other and start building our Vikings |
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| Report: Great meeting, everyone got wings on. | |
| Attending: Daniel, Josh, Jordan, Jerry | |
| Saturday Jan 13, 2007 11:00 | Plan: Complete building Vikings, Discuss kit selection |
| Report: Vikings all built. Discussed getting kits. | |
| Attending: Daniel, Josh, Jordan, Beecher | |
| Sunday Jan 28, 2007 2:00 | Plan: Paint our Vikings. Start Personal Kit. |
| Report: Everyone was anxious to start their kits, so we didn't work on the Vikings this week. | |
| Attending: Josh, Jordon, Beecher, Jerry | |
| Saturday Feb 10, 2007 11:00 | Plan: Build |
| Report: Small meeting, but both Beecher and Jerry made good progress. | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jerry | |
| Saturday Feb 24, 2007 11:00 | Plan: Build. We might also watch a short video. |
| Report: We watched a video about the parts of a rocket, we painted our Vikings, and we continued building. | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jerry, Jordan, Josh | |
| Sunday Mar 11, 2007 2:00 | Plan: Build and watch another video. |
| Report: We watched a video about prepping rockets for launch, we all worked on finishing all our rockets, and we discussed what we might do for Abbie's Project Expo at the April community meeting. | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jerry, Jordan, Josh | |
| Saturday Mar 17, 2007 9:00 to 10:30am | Plan: Launch at LUNAR. |
| Report: A Great Launch! All of us had two good flights each, including Mr. Davidson, Ian, and myself. We learned how to follow LUNAR launch procedures and safely set up our rockets for flight. | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jordan, Josh | |
| Sunday Mar 25, 2007 2:00 | Plan: Launch review. Fixing up launched rockets. Abbie Project Expo preparation. Discuss rocket judging. Finish up rockets. Another video? Those of you that want to start a second rocket might get a chance. |
| Report: We watched a couple more videos, discussed filling out launch cards for Abbie's Project Expo, and patched up the damage done to some of the Vikings during our launch last Saturday. | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jerry, Jordan, Josh | |
| Saturday Apr 7, 2007 2:00 | Plan: Who knows? Whatever we want! |
| Report: Worked on project rockets, new and old. | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jordan, Josh | |
| Sunday Apr 22, 2007 9:30am to 11am | Plan: Launch project rockets at LUNAR! |
| Location: Robertson Park | |
| Report: Canceled by bad weather. Bummer! | |
| Sunday May 6, 2007 2:00 | Plan: Talk about submitting rockets to the Alameda County Fair. Put finishing touches on our project rockets. |
| Report: We talked about submitting fair entries on-line this week. Final touches were put on several rockets. | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jerry, Jordan, Josh | |
| Saturday May 12, 2007 4pm to 5pm | Plan: LUNAR night launch. |
| Report: Another great launch. Everyone got their project rockets in the air. High winds made recovery a problem: two project rockets lost (but already rebuilt, I hear!). | |
| Attending: Beecher, Jerry, Jordan, Josh | |
| Alameda County Fair Dates: | |
| Saturday May 12, 2007 | Deadline for Alameda County Fair entry forms. Here are some tips. |
| Friday or Saturday June 8 and 9, 2007 | Turn in rockets to Alameda County Fair. |
| June 27th through July 8, 2007 | Alameda County Fair! Go see your rocket displayed. |
| Saturday July 11, 2007 | Pick up rockets from Alameda County Fair. |
| Future Non-Project LUNAR Launch Date: | |
| Saturday June 30, 2007 9am to 4pm | The project is over, but I thought I'd put up this last LUNAR launch at Robertson Park on the schedule for your information. It is the last chance you will have to launch at the Livermore site since LUNAR's special permit to launch there expires. Unfortunately, I will be out of town that weekend, so I cannot make it to this launch. |
The leadership of this project is literally one big happy family, so you can contact us all at provans@comcast.net or by calling 484-4971.
I've listed the project hours as of the March 25th meeting so we can all keep an eye on the 8 hours project requirement.
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