No after 9 years one of the first team members is an associate prof at the university and they have actually started an aeronautics program. The university prefers to use its own staff as advisers. I used to make a vacation out of it and took two weeks flying my own models at different feilds on the way down and back. That put the competition on the weekend in the middle of that two weeks. I have 8 weeks paid vaca every year now I load up the truck camper n trailer and the wife n I head out for a month or more and i visit clubs along the way. Last year we spent a month in Newfoundland this year not going as far but next year want to go to Tuktoyaktuk and float fly off the arctic ocean.