<font face="arial" size="3"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">On Sunday, January 6, 2019 7:04pm, "Peter Cadra" says:</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><br />><strong> Happy New Year NRVR Members!</strong><br />> <br />> I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about this year's first <br />> membership meeting. <br />> <strong>Where</strong>: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/ocq1FLqNtiR2">1880 Pratt Dr, Ste# 2018, Blacksburg, VA 24060</a><br />> <strong>When:</strong> Thursday Jan 31, 2019 from 6-8:30pm<br />> <strong>What:</strong> Club/TRA Business Meeting (incl. elections) + fun Show-n-Tell activities<br />> <br />> On the calendar here: <a href="http://nrvr.org/calendar/">http://nrvr.org/calendar/</a> <br /><br /><br /><img src="cid:NRVR-fire-launch.png@1546928480.1392" alt="">Thanks Pete! Yes.. our first 2019 members meeting on Jan 31st! That date is is also the last date to re-up your 2019 membership dues, so don't wait! (<a href="http://nrvr.org/join-nrv-rocketry/">re-up here</a>) Mail it if you can't make the meeting.. bring it if you can. :)<br /><br /><br /><br />Wow.. A TON has happened with us as a club this past year, and we have some even bigger surprises in store for 2019 too! Check it out below!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Sat 1/16 from 3-6pm: Egg Timer Soldering Workshop</strong></span><br />And now... for something completely different...</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">I hear that Santa got several of our members an Eggtimer or EggTracker rocket kit! The problem is.. the elves aren't certified on lead-free soldering, AND are on vacation right now, so we're going to solder these rocket altimeter related PC-boards ourselves. I</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">f you're not super confident with regular thru hole soldering, or the scary surface mount stuff.. No sweat! We're going to have all kinds of soldering, desoldering, hot air reflow and surface mount gear and supplies with us to help everyone get their egg timers ticking! </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">We're even bringing head mount magnifiers and real time video microscopes for the really small stuff! </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Jordan is heading up this workshop, and you can trust him...</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">He's and Engineer.. he knows what he's doing. :)</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">So bring your solder irons and sponges if you have'em..!</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">(spectators are welcome, but may be asked to bring the cats and live chickens)<br /><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Members Meeting - Thur 1/31:</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Okay.. on the more serious side.. we need to (or are obligated to) do elections and also review 2018, touch on any old business as well as touch on some new business stuff.. and iron out our 2019 launch schedule... but we're after the business stuff is out of the way, we're doing to do something we haven't done in a few years.. </p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><em><strong><img src="cid:buddy.jpeg@1546928480.1632" alt="">A New Years Show-n-Tell!</strong></em><br />Bring in your favorite winter acquisition, rocket related project, or recently completed EggTimer or GPS Tracker, and tell the class all about how cool it is while others gawk in slack jawed envy. :)<br /><br /></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">So here's roughly how we expect the 1/31 meeting to flow.. </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Approximate Agenda:</span><br /><strong>6pm</strong> - 2018 Recap (officers)<br /><strong>6:30</strong> - Financial Report (treasurer, Pete)<br /><strong>6:45</strong> - TRA/Club Elections (Prefecture, Secretary/Treasurer, President)<br /><strong>7pm</strong> - Launch & Event Planning for 2019<br /><strong>7:30</strong> - Member renewals along with...<br /><strong>7:30-8:30</strong> - Rocket Related Show-n-Tell</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><img src="cid:NRVAR-bob-horns.png@1546928480.1772" alt="">For more info on the required TRA and club elected positions and responsibilities, please see either Pete's email below, or a more detailed listing <a href="https://tinyurl.com/nrvr-duties">-->here<--</a> .<br /><br />Any member can step and run for any position, literally.. anyone. :)</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><br />Seriously though, we <em>are</em> encouraging it this year as it looks like we're going to possibly be loosing at least one of our core members and officers (moving).. so PLEASE, feel free to throw your hat in the ring! </p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><em>If you think about it, but then back down.. Bob will know... ----></em></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">I shouldn't write this stuff this late..</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Bob.. Did we miss anything?</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">NRVR President (for now ;)<br /><br /><br />*****************************PETE'S PREVIOUS, PARTIALLY ***********************************<br />***********************************INVISIBLE EMAIL***********************************************<br /><br />The business items that DO need to happen at this meeting are:<br /><br />* Officer Elections (we need some folks to step up and help out this year!)<br />* Accepting 2019 NRVR club membership dues/renewals<br /><br />For Elections, the positions are:<br /><br />-Prefect (club leader who oversees rule compliance, certifications, contact with TRA, etc...)<br />-Secretary (doing meeting/launch announcements like this email and working with the webmaster on the google calendar)<br />-Webmaster (keeping up the website, facebook, etc)<br />-Treasurer (accepting membership dues, depositing/tracking funds, issuing membership cards, members email list, etc)<br />-Launch Director (hauling trailer, setup/breakdown, etc)<br /><br />On the Membership side:<br /><br />As the current treasurer, I'll have new membership forms at the meeting. If you are renewing your membership, for your convenience, I will have your archived 2018 membership forms <br /><br />on hand for signing-off on for 2019. Dues are same as last year:<br /><br />* students = $5<br />* Individual = $20<br />* Family = $25<br /><br />(cash, check or money orders and NOW we can accept credit card payments!)<br /><br />New membership forms can be found here: http://nrvr.org/join-nrv-rocketry/<br /><br />Thanks again for your participation in this great rocketry club,<br /><br />Pete Cadra<br />NRV Rocketry Treasurer<br /><br /><br /><br />> _______________________________________________<br />> NRVR-Members mailing list<br />> NRVR-Members@mail.nrvr.org<br />> http://server2.nrvr.org/mailman/listinfo/nrvr-members</p></font>