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May - The High School Annual Scholarship
Award-
The Hampton Roads Chapter of the American
Helicopter Society (AHS) awards an annual scholarship of
$2,000 to a local high school senior.
The scholarship is open to students who intend to
pursue a career in engineering or related technical fields
including physical, applied, or computer sciences.
After receiving some interesting and competitive
scholarship essays the $2,000.00 AHS-HRC scholarship and AHS
membership was awarded to
Katheryn O'Connell of Cox High School.
May-
USO Donation-
Mrs. Mia Copeland, President of the
Hampton Road Chapter of the American Helicopter Society
presented a $1,000.00 check to Mrs. Josie Berry, VP Business,
USO of Hampton Roads. The funds were raised during the last AHS
Propulsion Specialist Meeting golf tournament held in October of
2007.
March- Howard Hughes Award
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This year’s honoree for the
Howard Hughes Award,
given in
recognition of an outstanding improvement in fundamental
helicopter technology brought to fruition in the
previous year, is the
Network Centric
Operations (NCO) Technology Development Team,
consisting of the
US Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD),
AMRDEC Aviation Systems Integration Facility (ASIF), The
Boeing Company and Rockwell Collins.
The NCO Team during 2007 collaborated to
develop and demonstrate substantial improvements in
battlefield situational awareness and combat
effectiveness that can be achieved via incorporation of
advanced mission architectures, high bandwidth
communications systems and advanced display systems.
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March - Lichten Award
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The Society’s Robert L. Lichten Award
recipient is Yvonne T. Fuchs of NASA Langley
Research Center for her paper ”Vertical Drop Testing and
Analysis of the WASP Helicopter Skid Gear.” This paper
will be presented during Forum 64, Thursday, May 1,
2008, in Test & Evaluation II from 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
The Lichten Award is given to an AHS member who has not
previously presented the results of their work at any
national or international meeting. |
March- Two awards at the
Tidewater Regional Science Fair,
$100 awards were given to :
Chris Cooper-AHS
Award Junior Division
William Luo-AHS
Award Senior Division
February
Career Day at NASA Langley-
The American Helicopter Society Hampton Roads Chapter hosted a
booth at the NASA Career Day event, held February 20-21, 2008.
Dr. Henry Jones, Dr. Karen Jackson and David Meyer represented
the local chapter. The day was spent speaking to many high
school students about their careers and exciting news within
their industries.
