The Cass County squadron was buzzing with activity September 25-26, 2009 when senior member 1Lt Mark Miller and nine cadets completed the entire Civil Air Patrol Model Rocketry program within a two-day weekend. Cadets began in the classroom where they received instruction about the three model rocketry stages – Redstone, Titan and Saturn. After completing the Fizzy Flyers and TP Torpedoes, cadets transformed the classroom into a learning lab by constructing their own model rockets – an historical rocket, a single-stage rocket, and a payload rocket. Launching the rockets is the best part of the weekend, according to cadets, but sometimes a failure to launch is as much a learning process as seeing their handmade missiles shoot to the sky. Participating cadets were: C/A1C Daniel Peters, C/Amn Jack Conklin, C/Amn Jacob King, C/Amn Ty Humbird, C/Amn Kurt Mathews, C/Amn Carlos Miller, C/Amn Ryland Miller, C/AB Ceasar Swigart, and C/AB Christian Swigart. Cadets assisting were: 2Lt Daniel Caron and C/CMSgt Karra Miller. Teaching the model rocketry program was 1Lt Mark Miller.