EMRR Design This Spaceship Contest Announced May 4, 2006 Web posted at: 12:21 PM EDT
(ROL Newswire) -- Essence's Model Rocketry Reviews (EMRR) is please to announce their latest contest geared toward the creative rocket community: "Design This Spaceship" Contest.
The contest is open to low-power, mid-power, and high-power rocket designers and fliers. The concept is straight-forward: design any one (or up to four) of the six "spaceship" choices, build it, fly it, and write up a construction article to be eligible for MAJOR prizes.
The "spaceship" concepts are a single picture on the EMRR contest page. It is then up to entrants to develop the plan and build the rocket so that it can fly. Some are much more challenging than others, however, all have a unique look that will certainly get the "ooh's and aah's" when finished and punched into the air.
The contest has weighted scoring to address the complexity of some of the designs as well as four areas of measure:
Replication Score (50%); Replicate the picture into a viable 3D flying machine! Flight Score (15%); Prove that it can fly and be recovered! Write Up Score (25%); Record key information and drawings do others can do it! Best in Group Percentage (10%); Make it the best!
The total prize pool is currently valued at > $750 and is being provided by (in alphabetical order):
Aerotech: Cheetah Rocket Kit Art Applewhite Rockets: 29mm Flying Saucer JonRocket.com: Peter Alway - 1/195 Saturn V Model Minutes US: 6-Pack Rocket Collection Public Missiles: Lil' Lunar Express QModeling: Vega or Snooper Kit Sirius Rocketry: Refit U.S.S. Atlantis Kit SpaceCAD: Design Software License Squirrel Works: Nick Adams' Interstellar Probe Kit Thrustline Aerospace; Electra Kit
All entries need to be submitted by August 1, 2006.
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Source: Essence Model Rocketry Reviews (EMRR)