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International Water Rocket Association
safe sport of water rocketry.
IWRA members come from all over the world and all ages. Regardless of where you come from, what your level of enthusiasm is, there's room in the IWRA for you. If you are interested in water rocketry, we encourage you to contact the IWRA about becoming a member.
The IWRA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the safe sport of water rocketry in all forms. Our organization is an internet based association to allow the widest possible global membership. The association provides an education resource for the general public in understanding the sport of water rocketry and in the next few years will become the central depository of knowledge and oversight for competitive water rocketry achievements.
The IWRA was formed on January 01, 2007 with the installation of the association’s first elected officers and the ratification of the association constitution. Also during 2007 the membership ratified an comprehensive water rocket safety code and developed the voting by internet process. Later that same year, discussions were started on procedures for the Competition Guidelines and the Peer-Review process that will provide for a level playing field for competing for records worldwide.
Ratification of both the Competition Guidelines and Peer-Review process was completed during the 2008 election cycle.
IWRA 2ND ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
FROM: Blog – IWRA Written By: Gene F. 09 President Sept. 23, 2009
The 2nd annual membership drive for the International Water Rocket Association (IWRA) is being conducted during the month of October 2009. Individuals and groups that are interested in the sport of water rocketry in all its forms are invited to consider joining the IWRA.
Presently, members come from all over the world and all ages. Regardless of where you come from, what your level of enthusiasm is, we encourage you to contact us about becoming a member. The IWRA is a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the safe sport of water rocketry. Our organization is an internet based association to allow for the widest global input into policies that affects the water rocket community. The association also provides an educational resource for the general public in understanding the sport.
In the next year the IWRA will start to provide oversight for competitive water rocketry achievements worldwide. This past year, the association passed an comprehensive Water Rocket Achievement Recognition Guidelines and Peer-Review Process which will provide a level playing field for all water rocket enthusiasts by specifying competitive guidelines and having a peer-review process that has been developed and agreed on by the membership to provide fairness in the establishment of water rocket achievement records.
Revised: 10.22.2009
08.16.2009 PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL (PC) Peer-Review Documentation Package passes.
The President's Council (PC)conducted a vote between July 25-31, 2009 to approve the questionnaire document package that will be sent out to known water rocket contest sponsors and competing water rocket teams/rocketeers to provide the needed documentation for recognition of achievement.
The questionnaires follows the Water Rocket Achievement Recognition Guidelines that was ratified in late 2008. The guidelines are intended to level the playing field for all rocketeers interested in setting records. The Council passed the questionnaire package on a 3 to 0 vote of a five member group.
In other news, the council conducted several other votes during July 25-31, 2009. The following are the results of those votes.
Voting: General Debate Policy PASSES on a 3 to 0 vote of a five member group.
Voting: General Voting Policy PASSES on a 3 to 0 vote of a five member group.
Policy: Forum Membership/Ownership/Moderator Passed on a 2 to 0 vote of a five member group.
The council will next be reviewing and approving the 2009-2010 Policy and Procedures Manual for the association. The manual is a new document that puts all the operational policies and procedures into one document. The information within the document comes from the association constitution, voting by internet and other source documents that the association has used in passed years.
08.16.2009 Peer-Review Board (PRB) The board presently is working on putting together a email list of known water rocket competition sponsors. Once this list is finalized contact will be made with those sponsors to start making relationships with them and gathering the competition results so that official recognition of those achievements can be made by the association.
Safety is very important with any rocket. Water Rockets in particular are not toys. A pressurized water rocket can store huge amounts of energy and fly hundreds of miles per hour. They can suddenly burst, or injure bystanders if they don't stand at a safe distance from the rocket.
Because of this, children should never be allowed to launch water rockets without constant adult supervision. Rockets can be safe but only when everyone understands and abides by safe behavior.
Follow the link marked " Safety Code" (Upper Left) to view the official IWRA safety code adapted on March 2007.
Revised: 03.17.2007.
The IWRA/Yahoo Forum is a private forum for internal discussions of the association and is being used for voting purposes using the polling feature of the forum.
Members are asked to join the forum at the time of joining the IWRA so that they can be fully involved in the association.
Along with the IWRA Forum this public site has all draft proposals, voting materials plus general information of the association to keep the general public and non-member rocketeers informed.
Revised: 01.03.2009.
If you are interested in water rocketry and your interested in having input in to the making of water rocket policies. Then we encourage you to contact the IWRA about becoming a member.
All IWRA members are asked to add themselves to the IWRA mailing list by filling out the form at the bottom of the page.
A message from the IWRA president: Gene F (2009)
01.09.2009 On behalf of the administration and membership of the International Water Rocket Association welcome to our web site. Since 2007, the IWRA has promoted the safe sport of water rocketry world wide. During this time the association has developed a comprehensive water rocket safety code, competition recognition guideline and peer-review process that will allow for record achievement recognition by the association for members and non-members, Developed an high pressure safety code and other measures that will make the IWRA the main depository for the water rocket community worldwide.
As you browse the web site, feel free to contact us for any information that we can assist you with. Water rocketry is a family and educational sport enjoyed by thousands enthusiasts worldwide. To serve all water rocketeers worldwide, the association is an internet based organization that lets as many opinions related to the sport to be heard.
Once again, welcome to the International Water Rocket Association. This is "YOUR" association.
Gene F.
IWRA-President ‘09
IWRA Contact Information:
IWRA E-Mail Address: waterrocket06@yahoo.com
IWRA Official Blog: http://waterrocketeers.blogspot.com/
IWRA President's Office Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/waterrockets
