VRA AGM / Xmas Social Event

Joins us for a social get together and presentations at The Golden Gate Hotel in South Melbourne

Members are welcome to arrive after 6:30pm and order drinks and a meal.

The formal AGM will be held at 7pm. The agenda is:

• Confirm Minutes of Previous AGM
• Presidents Report
• Financial Report
• General Business
• Election of Committee Members (President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, and general committee members)

If you wish to stand for election for any of these positions, or you wish to submit an item of general business, please do so in advance of the meeting. General Business items cannot be added to the agenda at the meeting. To register your interest in standing for a committee position, or if you have an item of general business to address at the meeting, please email our club secretary at p.plevier@hotmail.com

Only current members of the VRA can stand for election or participate in the AGM.  However, we welcome any of our rocketry community and their families to attend the AGM as observers.

2022 BALLS Experimental Rocket Launch

Following the AGM, David Wilkins will provide a presentation on his recent trip to BALLS 2022 in the USA, including lots of photographs. BALLS is THE premier Experimental Rocket Launch in the world. BALLS brings together dedicated rocketry enthusiasts devoted to the leading edge of non-professional rocketry activities for the best demonstration of experimental design, using today's best technologies, and probably the largest non-professional rockets seen anywhere. BALLS is a venue for projects that should NOT be flown at other events or locations due to safety considerations and potential altitudes. This may include, but is not limited to, LARGE rockets, complex staging or clustering, metal rockets, self-designed and/or fabricated rocket motors and new technologies being developed or proven.

Swap Meet

We will also have an informal swap meet running at the meeting.  If you have any rocketry related items that you would like to sell or swap, you are welcome to bring them along.  We will have a table set up at the back of the room.  Please have a note on them with your description, name, and asking price. Propellant and pyrotechnics cannot be brought to the venue, but you can still have these for sale. We will send out a list of items for sale in advance of the event if you wish to have your items on that list.  Prior to 15th November please send a photo, description, and price indication via email to isim0009@student.monash.edu

We are disbanding the club library, and books and videos from the library will be available if people wish to make small donations to the club for the items.

We encourage our rocketry community to attend this event.  It not only helps you participate in the running of the club, but also helps us cover the costs of hiring the venue as we have to achieve a minimum spend by participants for food and drinks to subsidise our costs.