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vNARCON-2025

Virtual NARCON-2025

Date: February 22, 2025.

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Central time

Join us for a lite version of our annual rocketry convention, vNARCON-2025. vNARCON-2025 will be hosted via Zoom. The event is free to all NAR members. Registration is required, to register, 
follow this link. 

Schedule

Research and Development Presentations
11:00 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
18-minute presentations, up to 7 minutes for Q/A from judges and audience
Audience can put questions in Zoom Chat

C-Division Presentations
11:10 a.m. Bernard Cawley: A Performance Survey of currently available B-impulse motors
11:35 a.m. Tom Fetter: Using Black Powder for Parachute Deployment
12:00 p.m. Chris Flanigan: Parachute Performance for Precision Duration Models
12:25 p.m. Steven Morris: Characterization of masking tape techniques
to bundle high-power shock cord
12:50 p.m. 10 min. break


B-Division Presentations

1:00-1:25 p.m. Ethan Goldberg: Making high performance composite fin plates


NAR Town Hall Meeting

1:30-2:15 p.m. NAR President John Hochheimer


Manufacturers Forum
Hosted by Bob Sanford

2:30 p.m. The following manufacturers will be on hand to present.
AeroTech/Quest
Estes
Galactic Manufacturing
MaxQ Rocketry
Altaira Rocketry
North Coast Rocketry
Apogee Components
eRockets/Semroc
Madcow Rocketry
Eggtimer Rocketry
Impulse Launch Systems


Research and Development Awards Announcement

Social Hour
 

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