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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.

Visit EMRR at http://www.rocketreviews.com to find out more details or write to EMRR, P.O. Box 1172, Williston, VT
05495

Source: Essence Model Rocketry Reviews (EMRR)