| Short History of the IPMS/ Puerto Rico Charter Founded 2003 in San Juan, by Mr. Roberto Espada past member and Mr. Jose Rivera actual member, this charter started implementing the concept of organization, based on the IPMS-USA rules and regs focused in embracing scale modeling at its best. During the first 2 years, we tried to keep the charter working but we struggled to survive, mainly due to need of good leadership. The third year, Mr. R. Espada retired from the chapter and G. Mustafa actual member and president joined, and together, with his vision and keen leadership style, we started to grow and progress. Five years later, IPMS/Puerto Rico Charter has an extensive calendar of event's, exhibitions and shows, and our very own official web page with great information, images of events, links, organizational mail to all members, and even a group uniform that represent us well. We embrace the diversity of thought and of people in our ranks. We have a female modeler and a 4 year old, son of one of our members, that has already built (assisted of course) his first model. Thanks to a solid team, united by a strong passion for scale modeling and directed by a great leader, IPMS-PR is on the road of success for years to come. Thanks to our webmaster, Jose Rivera, this great web page is available to everyone. With this short history we illustrate that even the most serious of organizations need good leadership, team work and focus in order to raise the bar of excellence and become an organization of choice for scale modeling. With a winning team, we open the future of scale modeling. Join us. |

