SEDS MEETINGS 1998

SEDS's Meetings of the Board
MOVIE NIGHT
Date: Postponed
 Time: Postponed
Place: Postponed
Organization: OU-SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, University of Oklahoma)
Type: Activity

Members Present

Summary

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SIXTH GENERAL MEETING
Date: Thursday, April, 2 1998
Time: 5:30pm
Place: Neilson Hall Rm320
Organization: OU-SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, University of Oklahoma)
Type: Meeting

Note: We actually had refreshments provided for the meeting, chips/pretzels and soda.

  1. Attendance:
    • Phillip Forkner - Astrophysics
    • Mark White - Undecided
    • Marcos Stocco - CS & Phil.
    • Brian Campbell - Film & Video Studies
    • Niki Bowsher - Environmental Geography
    • Jeremiah Powell - CS
    • Brent Murphy - Mech. Engr.
    • Martin Garcia - Letters
    • Hans Bruno - Math & Phys.
    • Matt Bradley
    • Mark Aldridge - Chem. Engr.
    • Dan Warren - Zoology
    • Tracy Iglesias - Zoology
    • Kendall Rogers - Aerospace Engr.
  2. T-shirts sale: $12 for SEDS members, $15 for non-members
  3. Introductions

    4. Everyone goes around introducing themselves, their major, and why they're in SEDS.

  4. Ideas - We spent some time discussing the possibility of seeing a Launch in Florida & roadtripping Todo Note: Get a launch schedule.
  5. ISDC Conference May 22-25 in Milwaukee discussion

  6. - Need to organize roadtrip to go to the conference this summer as a group.

    • Tickets are $25, probably $20-$30 per night hotel.
    • Probably $250 total for travel, meals, misc. etc.
    • Contact us later if you want to go.
    • Interested : Kendall, Matt, Dan, Mark, Marcos, Phillip, Niki,
  7. Model Rocket Launching Contest
    • Planning for it to be in the Fall, probably the 4th week of school.
    • Campus wide competition, but also HS students too.
    • probably $5 registration fee
    • Held at Lloyd Noble Parking lot
    • Need launch pads & Judges
    • Highest launch wins $50 prize
    • will have regulations as to size, and engine size.
    • Need to see about laws eg Fire Marshall, LNC, First Aid/Ambulance
    1. Name discussion

      2. MOROLACO - MOdel ROcket LAunching COntest

      The MRLC

      T-Zero

      "Launch your dreams into the sky, and watch em burn"

    2. Registration

      3. Cost $5 to register

      will have a registration packet

      Can we expect at least 30 entrants (hope to get at least 50)

      More if we contact HS teachers & they make it required for their classes.

      Registration Packet contents:

      Guidelines (Rules & Regulations)

      Contact Info Sheet

      General Tips and Advice sheet for building Sheet

    3. Rules & Regs.

      4. No engines above a C engine

      Rocket will have to be inspected at some kind of registration booth, must be approved before

    4. launching

      5. Some kind of pre-registration

      Actual registration application should be due at least a week before event.

      May have cheaper registration costs for early registration, and double the cost for "same-day"

    5. registration.

      6. Hope to send the packets to school teachers some time in the summer. (Need to find out when HS starts, might have to move the event time if they start sig. later than us)

      May want to focus on the campus contest for the fall-and wait for the Spring to really focus on the school students.

    6. Launching

      7. -A SEDS appointed judge may have to be the only one to actually do the launching,

      for risk management purposes ?

      • Should we build our own launch pad, or get an Estes kit ?
      • Should we have more than one pad, or not ?
      • Height will be calculated by triangulation, may have to write a program to calculate it and punch it in right there.
      1. Application

        2. Will have name, number, address, phone, sign away on it.

      2. Costs

        3. 30*$5 = $150, so is $50 prize too much ?

        if 50*5 = $250, so we could have several prizes & stuff

      3. Prizes

      Might have different divisions/classes

      Single stage vs. Multi stage classes

      Homemade vs. Estes kit classes

      Might have other awards for design creativity/originality etc.

    7. MISC

      8. Need to see about legal stuff, insurance, liability

      May want to have a "show" beforehand from Amateur Rocketes Org.

      Look into buying Estes kits wholesale to resell to students

      Look into contacting papers to report on it, press releases, etc.

      Hopefully we can contact news/media for our own advertising purposes

      We might want to have snacks/concessions during the launching.

      ------ End of brainstorming, the rest of the discussion will go to the Committee, who will find

      out this info. and make decisions, draw up, and report back to SEDS at Gen. Mtg.

  8. Announcements:

    -Lost in Space premieres this weekend. Martin Garcia can let people in free for buying popcorn if they go Tuesday night - contact him later.

    - Phillip passed out his pictures from Spring Break in St. Thomas

    - Need to organize to have more flyers and get more publicity out there to get more members. We will preprint flyers for the next mtg, to pass out at the meeting to the members.

    -Checking e-mail & website for info. Tuesdays is a good bet, since we have officer mtgs. Monday

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