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<li>Essays: Above average maybe 8-9/10. For the main essay im writing about the rocketry club I started. Essay is a mix of humor, personality, and coolness.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: 1 Absolutely Amazing, 1 Good but not outstanding</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Amazing</li>
<li>Hook (if any): I started my own high powered rocketry club and business to fund it. We have 100 members, high power certification, HAM radio license, have broken the sound barrier, gone a mile high, and also have a community outreach project at a camp for underpriveledged kids.</li>
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<p>ECs: High Power Rocketry Founder and President of club plus everything mentioned above
Guitar/Garage Band
Teach 2nd grade sunday school
Tutor at Middle School
Stat Team captain for Mu Alpha Theta with various place awards
Science Fair - 2 1st place county, 3rd state physics, plus about 12 corporate awards. Aeronautical Engineering research for two years.
Science Bowl Co-Captain and Co-Founder, 2nd state division, National Invitational finalist
Science National Honors Society Vice President
Summer Science Training Program - I worked in a lab for Motorola over the summer developing an algorithm to reduce noise in cell phone speech signals
National AP Scholar</p>
<p>About 5 other awards, dont feel like listing them. I listed the main ones.</p>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
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<li>State or Country: FL</li>
<li>School Type: Public - IB</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White Jewish</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
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<p>Lol except for the EC’s we are about the same exact thing. My school has no science nhs or science bowl or summer science training program or mu alpha theta or aeronautical engineering (may not be school related). However… I would say its definetly a reach. MIT is a reach for everyone. But your hook sounds interesting. That may do real good for you. I remember we read a book october sky or something. Your rocketry club reminded me so much of it… but i would say in the end. A reach just like for everyone.</p>
<p>whoaaa… our ECs are almost identical: founder rocket club, founded business to fund it, co-captain. that’s crazyy.</p>
<p>anways, do you know the similarities between ‘October Sky’ and ‘Rocket Boys’ (the book that the movie is based off of)? A friend told me last year and I was just thinking about it a few days ago. It’s pretty cool.</p>
<p>“ECs: High Power Rocketry Founder and President of club plus everything mentioned above”</p>
<p>Oh wow. Man, you sound like me. I started the Rocket Development Association in 9th grade. We built a single stage J135 to 10176 ft and a two-stage J415/H45 to 16,000 ft. Now, at Harvey Mudd with the Mudd Amateur Rocket Club, we are planning a hypersonic two-stage carbon-kevlar rocket powered on a J800(3%K) and a custom I200(85%I) built by yours truly.</p>
<p>We’ve also put together a Rocket Propulsion Class, led by SSME/X43 designer M.C., an engineering professor here at Mudd. In addition, the new Experimental Engineering Class (required) is making the transition to a rocket-based class where 50 teams of 3 will build super smart rocket systems with fake budgets and advanced modular DAQ/processor/tranceiver boards made by the Mudd micro processors class. The professor that is heading most of the work, ironically, got his PhD from MIT and was a professor there for 10 years or so. Now he’s at Mudd .</p>
<p>I am one of the major consultants for the revamping of the class. Two weeks ago we launched a prototype rocket (I built) out in Lucerne Valley with GPS/RDAS/AltAcc/Video-2.4GHzXmitter/900GHz telemetry/Integrated Piezoelectric strain gauges in airframe parts and fins. Everything worked fabulously and we got some amazing data out of the flight. We’re going to step it up with a new rocket in February…using garolite and carbonfiber.</p>
<p>Anyways, I know this is an MIT thread, but we have some really neat opportunities even though we only offer a “general engineering” degree. Mudd has given me many amazing opportunities…among them… working for JPL for 5 months and being offered many ridiculous job offers (and taking one with some special ops guys and guys at jpl) .</p>
<p>PM me if you have any questions or just wanna talk AP/Al/HTPB, NC/NG/AP/RDX, LOX/C2H5OH, NOX/HTPB… And yes, I am the soon to be pres. of the Mudd Amateur Rocket Club and I’ll need a good VP/RSO or LCO.</p>
<p>“anways, do you know the similarities between ‘October Sky’ and ‘Rocket Boys’ (the book that the movie is based off of)? A friend told me last year and I was just thinking about it a few days ago. It’s pretty cool.”</p>
<p>Haha… MARC is showing October Sky this coming Friday in Galileo Hall. If anyone is in town, I’d encourage you to come. (I’ve read the book as well as seen the movie enough times to memorize all the lines…the movie is just a Hollywood version of the book. If I remember correctly, one of the last rockets H.H. launched went to 30,000 ft AGL…of course, with no recovery)</p>
<p>Hey guys, sorry for the late response I was at school. Ya we are L1 certified so far. We are going for level two because my buddy just turned 18, im only 17 still. Our main rocket project for the next launch is a 10,000 footer on an I with ham radio tracking and home built altimeter. I didnt realize there were so many rocketeers in these forums. I hope we meet up sometime.</p>
<p>We are considering a small rocket with an I300 in it. Or we were planning to double stage a G or H. You would let us borrow it? Wow… Let me talk to my fellow rocketeers in the club and see what they want to do</p>
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