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PAGE 4 WINGTIPS PLUS MAY 2002 North Hennepin Cadet Receives AFA Award Cadet Bridgett Whiting, 18, of Minnetonka was selected as the North Hennepin Squadron Cadet Officer of the Year in 2001 and, in unit tradition, was selected for the Air Force Association Award. The Award was presented on 7 May 2002 by Col Kevin Sliwinski, AFA Member and Deputy Chief of Staff for Training, Minnesota Wing Civil Air Patrol. Cadet Whiting received the Billy Mitchell Award in December 2001, but has been serving in an officer-level position since April 2000. Her major responsibilities included training nearly 40 basic cadets over the last two years, preparing them for their first promotion. Cadet Whiting has been in the Civil Air Patrol since 1998. In addition to attending the Basic Encampment, Cadet Whiting has graduated from Hawk Mountain Ranger School, a rigourous 10 day survival and emergency services course held in the mountains of Pennsylvania. She is also the longest standing rated Ground Team Member among the cadets. Cadet Brigitt Whiting Receiving the Air Force Association Award from Col Kevin Sliwinski. Cadet Whiting has served on the Minnesota Wing Color Guard, representing the state organization at the North Central Region Competition, where she was recognized as the fastest female runner. As part of the Color Guard, she has made presentations at the Minnesota Twins game on Flag Day 2001, as well as marching in two parades at the Minnesota State Fair, also in 2001. She is the only cadet in the unit to have a private pilot's license, the requirements for which she completed on her sixteenth birthday. Cadet Whiting and her sister, Cadet Jenilyn Whiting, often fly cross country, so much that articles of their adventures have appeared in several aviation magazines. Cadet Whiting is graduating 6th in her class from Hopkins High School and will attend the United States Air Force Academy beginning in June. Cadet Whiting is the third member of her family to attend the US Air Force Academy. WingTips Plus! www.mnwg.cap.gov/wingtips Minnesota Wing—Civil Air Patrol United States Air Force Auxiliary P.O. Box 1230, St. Paul, MN 55111 Wingtips Plus is an electronic supplement to WIngTips, The Minnesota Wing Newsletter. Deadline for submissions: 20th Day of the Month. The views expressed either written or implied are not necessarily those of the U.S. Air Force or Civil Air Patrol. Wing Commander: Col. Dale Hoium PAO: 1st Lt Al Pabon © 2002 Civil Air Patrol
PAGE 5 WINGTIPS PLUS MAY 2002 North Hennepin Celebrates Space Day! Members of the North Hennepin Squadron pose in their classroom with posters and the rover prototype to kick off the Space Day 2002 celebration. Cadets and seniors of the North Hennepin Squadron celebrated Space Day 2002 with a theme of Adventure to Mars. Thirty-six cadets and a dozen seniors participated in the three-event "mission," creating Mars rovers, competing in red rover races, and trying their luck in the crater landing. The evening was part of the national celebration of space. The idea originated with the distribution of materials by the Minnesota Wing Aerospace Education Directorate and soon left the planet. The cadets and seniors decided on a one-day event, given the unit's training schedule, and arrived at the event based on real space problems of mission and spacecraft design, aero braking, and the challenge of landing in a crater on Mars. The cadets created Mars rovers out of 2 liter pop bottles, dowels, CDs, and binder clips, and a plastic based on a prototype designed Cadet Daniel Frost and Captain Jon Frost, Aerospace Education Officer and Project Officer. Each part of the mission was tested before the actual event to ensure that it would work. "It was really pretty fun, but it took us a few tries to get the design down," noted Captain Frost, project officer, on a late evening phone call prior to the event. On the evening of the event, the cadets began constructing their rovers using materials provided and those that they brought from home. String, paper, and tape were everywhere, as the cadets quickly constructed, tested, and went back to the drawing table to ensure that their rover would win the events. Within an hour, the first rover was launched and the events began. Some rovers did descend the ramp, while other traveled as far as thirty feet. Chaplain Kevin Bauder kept the judging honest and declared the winner of the rover races as it rolled under the plane parked outside the hangar. The cadets then proceeded to the crater landing and the voting for appearance and design. Most participating members put on their best red clothing to add to the theme, with cadets bringing helium balloons and senior members prepared "Mars" cup cakes. All participants received a certificate and ruler. Winners of the three contests received prizes from the Science Museum, as well as a Space Day key chain and pen. North Hennepin Squadron plans to open the event up to the community next year based on the next mission challenge announced by the Space Day Foundations. The week before the event, Captain Frost worked with the 2d Lt Jeff LaBerge to construct the track reminiscent of the pinewood derby. 2d Lt LaBerge constructed a 12-foot high bar over which cadets would have to toss the rovers would have and land in a tractor tire. Creating the rovers was the easy part--or was it?
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