Space Cadets

Mission: Prepare for Space Exploration – Experience what it takes to travel beyond Earth

A one week adventure for middle school aged campers

• Did you know that most of the images you see of space are of things that are invisible to our eyes?  How can we find them, make pictures, and learn about them?  You’ll find things like invisible space rainbows and discover what interstellar space smells like.
• Learn to use gigantic radio telescopes built by NASA and get the tools you need to make images of the Sun with them.  Combine your work with other teams and make a movie of our Sun, in radio.
• Get up close with meteorites.  Hold them, learn how to study and identify them, even set foot on a piece of the Moon.  Then, eliminate the imposters, or “meteor-wrongs” to identify your own meteorite to keep.
•  Visit Clemson University and see what scientists there are up to.  Visit a waterfall to go for a swim, and hunt for elusive flora and fauna long the way.
• Build and launch rockets, protect marshmallow astronauts from a great fall, control robots like those on Mars, eat and exercise like an astronaut, and build a model to simulate gravity.