The 2026 membership campaign is officially open! As a reminder, membership is based on the calendar year, so these registrations will be for flying through December 31, 2026. As was noted at a few recent meetings, the membership dues remain unchanged this year, the same prices they’ve been since 2014. Individual membership renewals are $40, and Family membership renewals are $50 (per bylaws: a family is defined as one adult, or two cohabiting adults, and dependent children). First year members still get a $20 discount. However there are a couple of changes around membership I want to draw everyone’s attention to:
First off, I’m going to ask everyone to please use the online registration process to provide your membership information. If you wish to do an offline payment of membership dues, please reach out to me and we can solve that a couple ways, but I’m still going to insist on an online submission for membership information afterward.
Secondly: There is a new release / waiver. Please read it. Note that anyone with blank copies of the old one can recycle them, any signed copies that somehow didn’t make it into the club’s files, please email the Secretary.
Thirdly: There will now be TWO email lists for the club, the existing members list and a moderated announcements list. The announcements list will be where the board will post announcements for launches, meetings, events, etc. and solicit information and volunteers. The announcements list will be open to anyone and everyone that wants to keep tabs on what is going on in the club, regardless of their membership status. Only the board will be allowed to post to the announcements list. The members list will remain a members-only discussion forum, and the members list will be reset annually and re-populated with the folks who are paid members. I expect this will happen around the time of the first launch of the year and should be preceded with a final reminder to renew your membership for folks who have not yet.
You can opt out of either list as part of the membership process; it will default to adding you to both. For those of you joining as family memberships, your spouse/significant other can be opted in to either list during that process as well; please confirm with them if they wish that before submitting. If your dependents want to be on the announcement list, they can be added outside of the membership process. (The keen eyed among you will note, I’m not opening up the possibility for dependents on the members list. If you have an adult dependent in your family registration, and they wish to be on the members list, we can talk about it, send an email to the board.)
Finally, those of you who joined the club late last year, please check your email for a message from the club Secretary to refresh your information instead. It should have come in on Friday February 6th. If you don’t see this, but think you should have been part of that group, shoot an email at secretary AT bod DOT oregon rocketry DOT org I’ll look into it.
And with all of that said, here’s the URL to register for the 2026 flying season! https://www.oregonrocketry.org/membership-application/
Cheers, Chris Abbey
OROC Secretary