We had a great year and learned some very good lessons.  Many of our members are leaving for college, but perhaps we can remember these lessons for next year.

Good

• Building with standard parts proved to be valuable.  Team 1 was able to pull parts from several rockets to make a winning rocket.
• Two teams at Nationals.
• Seventh place overall.
• Professional freeballing.
• Tons of swag.
• Teamwork and dedication -- all three teams
• No CATOs.
• Successful experiments with pyrotechnic ejection charges
• Use of a timer for ejection by Team 2

Bad

• Team 2 missed the Nationals.
• Lawn dart of Team 2 backup rocket.
• Some punks took one of our boosters at a local launch site.
• Launching with seven minutes remaining in the launch window.
• The trees kept eating our rockets.
• Not being first.
• Taking a soldering iron and large battery pack onto the launch field.
• Never finishing the electronic rocket.
• Wolfenstein wasted time.
• Miss placed and damaged electronic parts.

Ugly

• Cooking a croissant on the launch pad.
• Greg throwing a croissant at other team.
• Marcus going shirtless.
• The Minnesota cow team.
• The giant Texas flag

TARC 2009 here we come!