President - Thomas Reichert
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Thomas Reichert is the President for the 2025-2026 school year. He has a deep passion for rocketry and rocketry related research. His previous experience involves founding his high school's rocket club, placing top 25 in The American Rocketry Challenge, and leading a team for NASA Student Launch during his senior year at high school. He enjoys modifying cars, going for late night drives, traveling, and exploring new places. He has two German Shepherds named Kato and Ellie. |
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Vice President - Kinion Fowler
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Kinion has been a member of ARA for the last three years. Last year, he was the Project Manager of the Liquids team and helped lead the team to three hot fire tests. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing fiction, and playing board games with his friends. His dream job would be a propulsion test engineer with NASA. |
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Treasurer - Benjamin Light
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Ben got involved in ARA during his freshman year and stayed because of the valuable hands-on engineering experiences. During his time in ARA he has gained experience in designing for manufacturing as an aerostructures member, project management experience on the NASA Student Launch Team, and administrative experience as the previous Vice President. |
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Lab Safety Officer - Atreiu Vacchi
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I joined on Fall of 2022 and jumped into the Payload Lead role for the then SAC Team. With some moderate success through our Muon Detector Payload, I moved into Payload Lead for the following year in the NSL Team. Although not it the state we hoped to achieve, we delivered a payload to take to competition. Since then, I have taken the Lab Safety Officer role and help ARA when it comes to purchasing, lab maintenance and upgrades, and trying to bring new tools to the team. |
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Public Relations Officer - Stephen Frank
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Stephen has been a member of the structures sub team for Liquids the past year to help design and simulate the structure for FAR DPF rocket. This year, he is excited to help grow the outreach of the organization through public relations. Outside of ARA, he enjoys playing video games, golfing, working on cars, enjoying the outdoors, and 3d printing |
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Liquids Project Manager - William Morelli
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I’ve been apart of ARA for 2 years as a member of the Liquids Propulsion Sub-team. I’ve gotten to work on things like the pressurant diffuser and igniters and witness some of our most interesting hot fires. Some hobbies/fun facts are I ran a marathon just a couple of months ago, and I’m (secretly) a fighter jet enthusiast. |
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Liquids Chief Engineer - Benjamin McCaslin
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Previously, he worked as avionics lead for the Friends of Amateur Rocketry Dollar Per Foot Challenge, where he learned a ton building data acquisition and control systems. He has always had a strong interest in rocketry and aerospace, and is really excited to see this project fly. In his free time, he enjoys going hiking, reading books, and watching movies. |
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Solids NSL Project Manager - Timothy Murphy
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Previously worked as both Structures Lead & Project Manager for the Spaceport America Cup team in 2022-2023. I have been involved in rocketry for about 4 years and joined ARA my first semester at UA. After graduation, I hope to start full-time work in the space industry. I enjoy playing chess, listening to music and traveling. |
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Solids NSL Chief Engineer - Robert Turner
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I've been involved with the club on the SAC/IREC team as the structures lead for two years now. My first real experience with rocketry was with the club, but I've been working to catch up. Outside the club I enjoy videogames, writing, and napping. I've been playing the drums for upwards of 8 years now (mostly just punk rock though). |
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Solids IREC Project Manager - Zariah Washington
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Zariah has been a member of ARA for the last two years as a member of the Solids Structures sub-team. In her time in ARA, she’s gained experience in composites and launched 4 rockets! This year she is excited to manage the IREC Competition team. Outside of rocketry, she enjoys baking, reading, and gardening. |
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Solids IREC Chief Engineer - Molly Jones
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Molly has been a member of the IREC structures sub team as well as Structures team lead. She has helped design and construct the airframe for IREC rockets. In ARA she has gained experience in composite materials and manufacturing. In her free time, she enjoys the outdoors, playing piano, and cooking. |