AMA Announces the Winners of the 2004 Scholarships-2004/12

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Academy of Model Aeronautics 5161 E. Memorial Dr., Muncie IN 47302
Douglas Eatman
Douglas Eatman is from St. Augustine,
Florida, and was the recipient of a Grant
Scholarship
totaling
$6,000 and
the Weak
Signals
Award
totaling
$5,000.
Douglas is
the son of
Keith and
Susan Eatman
and plans to
study
mechanical
and aerospace
engineering, then he would like to pursue a
master’s degree in aerospace propulsion.
Douglas graduated from Pedro
Menendez High School, ranking fifth in a
class of 340. He scored an impressive 1560
on his Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
Douglas’s dream is to work for an
aerospace research and prototyping facility
and someday build his own airplane for
personal use.
“I love aviation in every form,”
Douglas wrote. He joined the Ancient City
RC Fliers when he was in elementary
school, starting with a Cox Thermal Hawk
glider then a Carl Goldberg Gentle Lady.
Competing in club glider contests, Douglas
placed second only to his instructor in spot
landing flying his Gentle Lady.
Douglas transitioned to using a threechannel,
48-inch-wingspan model called
the Cupcake, an aircraft designed by his
instructor. After mastering the Cupcake,
which Douglas wrote is “a great performer
and a snap-rolling monster,” he bought a
partially completed scratch-built trainer
based on the Great Planes PT-40. Because
of time constraints, Douglas “went ARF”
with his latest model, a Model Tech
Magic. With a Thunder Tiger .42 and fourchannel
radio, Douglas wrote, “It is a
serious hotrod.”
In the seventh grade, Douglas began
taking flying lessons from his neighbor,
John Simon, who is a regional airline pilot
and flight instructor. Douglas holds a
private pilot’s license and is pursuing an
instrument rating.
Douglas attained the rank of Eagle
Scout in the Boy Scouts of America where
he served as Patrol Leader and Troop
Instructor. He was elected crew leader for
the Northern Tier Trek, an eight-day canoe
trip in Canada. His Eagle Scout project
was designing, raising funds for, and
directing the construction of a hawk flight
cage for the Humane Association of
Wildlife Care and Education.
He has lettered in varsity tennis and
cross-country and was a member of the
National Honor Society.
Douglas was a member of the Future
Problem Solvers, a worldwide
organization. Participating students are
divided into teams of four and given a
future scenario. In a timed evaluation, the
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AMA Announces the Winners of the 2004 AMA/Charles
Hampson Grant Scholarships
SINCE 1970, the Academy of Model Aeronautics has provided scholarships to young men and women seeking to continue their
education in colleges and universities. The primary awards are presented through the Charles Hampson Grant scholarships.
In 2004, five individuals received a portion of the $20,998 Charles Hampson Grant awards. These monies came from a variety
of sources including gifts, memorials, and the AMA general fund. The top winner of the Grant award also receives an award
provided by the Toledo Weak Signals from monies generated from the club’s annual trade show and exposition. This year the
Weak Signals contributed $5,000.
An additional scholarship program awarded funds this year. The Sig award, a memorial in honor of the late Glenn Sigafoose, is
presented by Hazel Sig-Hester and Sig Manufacturing Company. Presented to one or more individuals, the award is based upon
financial need and aeromodeling activity. A total of $1,500 was awarded in 2004.
The number of applications this year dropped to 27, down from 47 applicants in 2003. Evaluated by a four-member committee,
the applicants are rated in several major areas including grade average, test results, school and community activities, and modeling
activities. High achievement in all of the categories is important for the maximum amount of scholarship awarded to an individual.
Again this year, the committee members were extremely close to one another in their evaluations of the applications. The top two
Grant Award recipients were separated by only one point and the remaining three were only four points apart.
The students’ planned majors include Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biology/Asian Studies, Aviation, and
Engineering/Chemistry.
Information regarding applications may be obtained from Jack Frost at AMA Headquarters or visit the AMA Education Web
site at www.buildandfly.com.
BuildandFly.com
The Academy of Model Aeronautics
Education Web site, www.buildandfly.
com, is the work of the Education
Committee. Our mission is to promote
model aviation as an educational tool,
in formal classroom and non-formal,
after-school settings.
We seek to assist classroom teachers
to integrate aerospace education concepts
into math, science, social studies,
language arts, and technology education
programs.
Curriculum support and materials for
science classroom programs may be
found in the Inventing Flight Schools
curriculum, written to celebrate the
centennial of flight of the Wright
brothers.
Support for non-formal after-school
programs such as Science Olympiad or
Technology Student Association
competitions may be found in program
search.
If you are seeking mentor assistance
with any of these initiatives, you may
find the details about how to locate one
in your area in the modeling educator
listing.
students must present possible problems
that could stem from the given scenario
and solutions to these problems. Douglas
has competed at the state level four times,
once ranking third in the state.
Douglas has also served as a volunteer
tour guide at the St. Augustine Light
House. He has run a small neighborhood
lawn-care service since 1998, mowing,
pruning, edging driveways, and trimming
trees. A summer job at a department store
also helped him earn money, but he had to
quit when school started. “I have found it
nearly impossible to work jobs other than
the time-flexible lawn service during my
busy school year,” he wrote.
Douglas plans to attend the University
of Florida College of Engineering. The
Academy of Model Aeronautics wishes
you success.
Russell Parker Parrish
Parker Parrish, from Alpharetta, Georgia,
is the recipient of a $5,000 Grant
Scholarship.
Parker is a graduate of North Springs
High School in Atlanta, Georgia,
graduating with a 4.0 grade-point average
and scoring 1460 on his SATs. He is
enrolled at
Georgia Tech
studying
mechanical
engineering.
In high
school, Parker
was a member
of the
National
Honor
Society;
student
council; class
council; a
participant in academic bowl, science
bowl, and math team; and a member of the
National Science Honor Society where he
served as president.
In 2002, Parker was selected for the
NASA Summer High School
Apprenticeship Research Program (Sharp).
The Sharp program is geared toward
increasing and strengthening the country’s
future participants in science, mathematics,
engineering, and technology majors and
professionals. This program is a paid
internship and Parker worked on research
to develop small-scale rocket engine fuel
to burn clean propellants.
Since that internship, Parker has been
employed as an aquarium consultant,
working roughly 25 hours summers and
decreasing his hours during school.
Parker’s first modeling experience of
any type came when he was seven years
old with a Bolink Legends RC car. Calling
it “the most incredible toy ever,” Parker
joined a local club and learned “more than
I ever dreamed about. I learned how the
radio worked, the basic principles of an
electric motor, how to properly charge a
battery, and most importantly, how to fix
problems as they arose.”
In seventh grade, the world of flight
proved to be his “final frontier.” He joined
the Georgia Model Aviators, constructed
an Easy Fly 40, and learned how to fly.
Parker’s next airplane was a Sig Four-Star
40. He pursued Pattern aerobatics until his
interest shifted again, “this time to a more
peaceful and surreal type of flying.”
The summer before high school, Parker
began constructing and flying rubberpowered
Indoor FF models. “Free Flight
was proving to be much more challenging
than I ever imagined,” he wrote. He joined
the Thermal Thumbers of Metro Atlanta
and took aim at several Junior class
Category II records.
In 2001, Parker made the trip to
Johnson City, Tennessee, for the Nats.
Winning three medals and a plaque for
Best Senior MiniStick, Parker had the
chance to fly with some of the best in the
world. Just short of what he needed to
qualify for the United States Team Finals
in F1D, Parker competed in Lakehurst,
New Jersey, and found himself with a
Senior Category IV record at 22:29 and
qualified for the finals. At the finals in
Akron, Ohio, Parker had another record
flight of 28:05 which landed him in second
place.
Parker turned in another modeling
direction and constructed an RC blimp that
“ended up larger than I was at the time but
flew very well despite being my first
attempt at anything lighter than air.” He
has also built an electric park flyer in order
to stay active in modeling while attending
Georgia Tech.
“Modeling has always been a part of
my life,” Parker wrote, “and as long as I
can see and walk, I plan on keeping it that
way.” AMA wishes you the best for your
future, Parker.
Joshua Chan
Joshua Chan, from Eatontown, New
Jersey, is the recipient of a $4,000 Grant
Scholarship.
Joshua
graduated
from
Monmouth
County
Academy of
Allied Health
and Science.
He plans to
double-major
in biology
with a
premedical
track and
East Asian
studies at New York University.
Joshua was born in Seattle,
Washington, but has traveled extensively
with his military family. He credits his
world travel for nurturing his interest in
the many cultural aspects of the world and,
in part, for his interest in model aviation.
His father’s stories of life in Hong Kong
were also responsible for much of his
interest in aeromodeling.
In Hong Kong, it was nearly impossible
to have large flying fields or the funds to
support such an interest, so his father had
to resort to creative ways to enjoy his
hobby. After moving to America, his
father joined a flying club. “My dad
noticed how excited I got each time we
went to the airfield,” Joshua wrote, “and
decided to let me fly an airplane.”
Using a PT-40 trainer of his father’s,
Joshua crashed on his first flight. Other
crashes followed, and as the PT-40 became
harder to fix, Joshua’s guilt about crashing
his father’s airplane and doubts about his
ability to fly grew. He decided to build a
Tower Hobbies Trainer because, “if I
crashed, at least I would be crashing my
own airplane.”
Mowing lawns and birthday money
supplied the finances for the project, and
Joshua started his first airplane. The thick
instruction manual filled with diagrams
and pages of instructions for the kit
containing hundreds of pieces was
daunting and he made a few mistakes
along the way. “Little did I know that the
wing would be the most complex part of
the project,” Joshua wrote, describing how
he had inadvertently assembled the ribs
upside down.
After much hard work, the model was
completed but Joshua was leery of flying
it. He eventually warmed up to the idea of
an instructor using a buddy box. “Finally, I
was able to truly enjoy my airplane as it
gracefully soared in the morning sky,
filling me with an indescribable sense of
pride and satisfaction at my achievement.”
Since his first airplane, Joshua has
constructed a Sig Kadet Senior, a
DuraPlane Aerobat, a Great Planes Easy
Sport 40, and is working on a Dynaflite
Spitfire. Joshua credits his aeromodeling
activities which taught him patience,
perseverance, and initiative, for the
confidence to achieve any goal he sets for
himself.
Since 1999, Joshua has attended
Monmouth Chinese School, participating in
Saturday classes to learn to speak Chinese
and better appreciate his heritage. A
member of the Student Council, Joshua also
volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club as a
homework and computer instructor.
He was a member of the Technology
Club, the Business Club, National Honor
Society, the Health Occupations Students of
America, and the Medical Explorers.
Joshua competed on the school’s track
and tennis teams, served as a summer camp
counselor, and helped raise funds to buy
toys for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at
the Jersey Shore Medical Center.
Joshua was an altar server at St.
Dorothea’s Church and the Children’s
Liturgy Lector for the monthly children’s
Mass.
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During the summer of 2003, Joshua
participated in the Department of
Defense’s Science and Engineering
Apprentice Program (SEAP), intended for
students with an aptitude for science.
Assigned to a project to construct new
technology designed to manage
information over a dynamic mobile
network, Joshua learned Java and JSP
programming languages, became familiar
with the Tomcat server, and created a
Web-based form of the project.
Joshua’s longtime dream is to become a
physician. He plans to participate in the
Air Force ROTC in college and wrote,
“Maybe chance will have it that my love
for medicine and aeronautics will land me
a career as a physician in the Air Force.”
AMA wishes you all the best in your
career endeavors, Joshua.
Bryce Haselhorst
Bryce Haselhorst, the recipient of a
$3,000 scholarship, graduated from
Orangeville High School in Orangeville,
Illinois, and
will attend
the Institute
of Aviation at
the University
of Illinois at
Urbana-
Champaign.
Bryce was a
four-year
honor roll
student and a
member of
the National
Honor
Society. He was an Academic Bowl
member, played basketball, ran track,
lettered in football, and was a member of
the Student Council.
Active in music, Bryce played
trombone in the school band for eight
years, including pep band, jazz band, and
concert band. He received the prestigious
Best of Day award at the District Solo-
Ensemble contest in 2003 and 2004, was a
Conference Music Festival selection, an
Illinois Music Educators Band selection,
and received a scholarship to University
Trombone Camp. Bryce was also a
member of the Community College
Concert band.
Bryce was a Boy Scout, earning 21 merit
badges and attaining the rank of Eagle
Scout in 2004. He was involved in 4-H for
nine years and was Illinois’ Mechanical
Sciences and Technology delegate to the
National 4-H Conference in 2002. Bryce
competed in electricity, woodworking,
bicycle, foods, visual arts, photography, and
rabbits, but credits his 4-H projects in
aerospace with cultivating his interest in
aviation.
“I made my first two rockets when I
was nine years old,” Bryce wrote. “I gave
a talk to my 4-H club on model rocketry
safety and received a blue award and
Grand Champion on my rocket at the
county fair.” Bryce continued building
rockets, experimenting with cutting holes
in the recovery parachutes to prevent
drifting.
When he was 13, Bryce built an Easy-2
model airplane and attended a local AMA
club meeting to get some flying tips. This
project earned him another Grand
Champion award and a trophy for the top
aerospace project at the county fair.
The following year, he built a Super
Sportster 40 and spoke at a 4-H club
meeting about applying UltraCote to cover
a model airplane. The same summer, Bryce
built an electric rocket launcher which he
tested using the rockets he had previously
built. Again he was awarded the Grand
Champion at the county fair and a top
Superior rating at the state level.
Bryce built a DuraPlane 40, a P-51
Mustang, and a CAP 232 for the following
years’ 4-H projects, all earning county
Grand Champion and Superior ratings at
the state level.
Bryce was asked to give an aerospace
presentation and judge a rocket launch for
a group of area grade-school students, and
because of his Superior award in 4-H at the
State Fair, he was asked to exhibit his RC
airplane at the State Capitol building on
Legislative Connections Day.
He has already soloed and plans to get a
private pilot, instrument, commercial,
multiengine, and various instructor ratings
while pursuing the Professional Pilot
program and obtaining a degree in
Materials Science and Engineering at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. We wish you success in your
chosen field, Bryce.
Keith Wong
Keith Wong is the recipient of a $3,000
scholarship and plans to attend Cornell
University in New York. Keith received an
International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma
from
Columbia
River High
School in
Washington
state and is
considering a
field of study
in chemistry
or
engineering.
Active in
sports, Keith
competed in
soccer both in
high school
and through a club, and he was on a
community rowing team. A member of his
school’s science club, Keith competed in
the Science Olympiad and won regional
and state medals in various projects. He
also used this experience to help middleschool
students prepare for the same
competition. He was inducted into the
National Honor Society in 2003 and is an
avid photographer.
Community service is a requirement for
the IB program and Keith fulfilled this
requisite by volunteering for a community
event called the Festival of Trees, helping
at a Rotary Foundation auction, and
working at the Santa Claus photo booth.
Keith updated, edited, and formatted his
soccer club’s rulebook and collected and
recorded game scores during the season.
He also helped build a float for the
Portland Rose Parade.
Another requirement of the IB
curriculum is an extended essay. Keith’s
subject was a research project concerning
Vancouver Lake, which is part of the local
watershed. He collected water samples and
data over a two-year period to complete
the 38-page paper that fulfilled the
scholastic requirement and impacted the
community.
Keith’s interest in airplanes began in
childhood. From paper and plastic models,
he progressed to RC when he was 10,
taking possession of an older brother’s
unfinished Midwest Aerostar 40. The
project took several years to complete, but
when he finished the construction, Keith
joined a local club and AMA.
With the help of experienced modelers,
he learned to fly basic maneuvers. “I can
hardly say that I became highly proficient
at flying,” he wrote. “My lack of flying
time became most obvious when it came
time to return the airplane to the ground in
one piece.”
A generous club member gave Keith a
winning raffle ticket for an ARF Hangar 9
Piper Cub, and although the model may
look more appealing than his Aerostar,
Keith wrote that he missed the building
process.
Because of his increasing academic
load, Keith’s flying time has been limited;
however he built a small electric park flyer
from a kit he found online. The park flyer
can be flown without needing to go to a
large flying field, and the electric motor
offers an ease of operation not found with
a combustible engine. “In short,” he wrote,
“this airplane kept my model aviation
career from ending.”
AMA wishes you well in your
academic endeavors, Keith.
Kerry Orrick
Kerry Orrick of Donalsonville, Georgia,
received a $1,500 Sig scholarship. Kerry
graduated from Seminole County High
School in Donalsonville, Georgia.
Accepted to the University of Georgia,
Kerry plans to earn a degree in business
management and then attend law school
and eventually enter corporate law or
politics.
Kerry followed his grandfather and
father into aeromodeling, building a Great
Planes PT-40 when he was 12. In ninth
grade, Kerry merged his hobby with his
Science Fair project: Which Airfoil is the
Faster: Flat Bottom or Fully Symmetrical?
“My hypothesis stated that from
researching
many
references,
all of them
basically
stated the
same view,”
Kerry wrote.
“The flat
bottom uses a
high-lift
airfoil and
produces
more drag;
the fully
symmetrical
one is more aerodynamic so it produces
less lift and causes less drag so it has to be
the faster one.”
Kerry built an airplane following the
kit’s instructions. He mounted the servos,
installed the fuel tank and engine, and then
built two wings: one from a Flight Box 40
that was fully symmetrical and one from a
PT-40 that was flat bottomed. With the
help of a local sheriff’s deputy to assist
with radar, Kerry set up the speedometer.
Making five passes at full speed with each
wing, Kerry recorded the results and
averaged the findings.
The project took first place at his
school and at the regional level. He
received an Honorable Mention in Physics
at the Georgia Science and Engineering
Fair in Athens, Georgia.
Kerry has built and flown several
airplanes including a Guillow’s FF model,
ann Estes Flight Master glider, a Goldberg
Sky Tiger II, a Sig Seniorita with floats,
and a GWS Tiger Moth. As a Boy Scout,
Kerry built several rockets including a
Sidewinder, an Alpha II, a Bull Pup 12D,
and an Mk-109 Stingray to earn his Space
Exploration Merit Badge. After becoming
an Eagle Scout, Kerry helped other Scouts
build and launch rockets to earn their
Space Exploration badges.
Kerry was a charter member and club
officer of the now-dissolved Screaming
Seminoles Club of Donalsonville, and he is
a member of the Port City Fliers of
Bainbridge, Georgia.
Kerry played golf, tennis, and football
in high school. “As long as I could
remember, it had been my dream to run out
of the tunnel in Sanford Stadium at the
University of Georgia and lead the Dawgs
to a national championship as the star
quarterback.” The dream came to an end
with a serious injury on the field resulting
in a broken pelvis, a leg broken in two
places, and a blown knee.
The accident closely followed the death
of his grandmother and pet dog, and it left
Kerry devastated. After leaving the
hospital, he returned to school to face
seven midterms. A poor score on one test
caused him to fall below an A average for
the first time ever and he spent the rest of
his time in high school pulling his GPA
up— not to the perfect 4.0 he wanted, but
to a respectable 97.88 and ranked third in
his class. “Through dealing with these
obstacles, I have learned to concentrate on
my academic abilities and always do my
best,” he wrote.
Kerry was a member of the National
Honor Society, student government,
Science Club, Spanish Club, Debate Team,
Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Future
Business Leaders of America (FBLA), and
Future Farmers of America. In the FBLA,
he served as a state officer, president of his
chapter, was recognized in the
organization’s Who’s Who in Georgia, and
placed third in a state competition. An All
American Scholar, Kerry received
numerous awards and much recognition for
his scholastic achievements.
Kerry has run a lawn-care service for
several years, listing the local hospital, a
nursing home, several businesses, and
neighbors among his clients. He also
works as an office assistant at an insurance
agency.
Congratulations, Kerry, and AMA
hopes you achieve your dreams.
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