Spring Time Means Summer is Right Around the Corner. Time to Book your Summer Space Camps. What a Space Center Director Does to Get Ready for a Day in Space. Adults Love the Space Center. Imaginarium Theater.

     Spring has arrived, and with it comes thoughts of summer.  When you think of summer, you should think of SUMMER SPACE CAMP!  There are two options for a local summer space camp; The Christa McAuliffe Space Center in Pleasant Grove and The Space Place in Lehi.  Both centers have the Space EdVentures starship simulators. The CMSC has the Magellan, Cassini, Falcon, Phoenix, Odyssey, and Galileo. The Space Place has the Starship Voyager.

       I work at both space centers and can promise an excellent camp at either location.       

The Christa McAuliffe Space Center.  Pleasant Grove.  Camp Registration Link

The Space Place at Renaissance Academy.  Lehi.  Camp Registration Link

      

What Does a Space Center Director Do to Get Ready for a Day in Space?  

     Bracken Funk is the director of The Space Place at Renaissance Academy.  What does he do to get ready for a day in space?  Bracken will pop into my 6th-grade classroom and challenge our Voyager Club cadets in a semi-friendly game of speed.  He makes their day when he loses.  And regardless of what he may claim to be accurate, he never lets them win.  He gives it his best shot.  I sit at my desk with the first aid kit and defibrillator ready for emergencies.  

The Space Center's Simulators - Just for Kids?  I Don't Think So 

     "Oh, I did that as a kid."  That is what I hear all the time from people I talk to all over Utah County when the Space Center comes up.  "Do adults do it?" is usually the next thing I hear.  Of course, adults do it.  Sometimes, I see more high school and adult crews on my Space Center Saturdays than younger kids.  Take yesterday for example.  One of the many older crews came dressed in Astronaut flight suits.  In fact, the astronaut second on the left is an old Space Center volunteer from his days in junior high.  I immediately recognized him when I had them get together for a photo.  "Do you remember me, Mr. Williamson?" he asked.  I told him I did, but the name wasn't coming up in the memory bank. Sam was one of our good volunteers, and here he was with his buddies for a return trip down memory lane.  

         Another adult group was downstairs prepping to enter the Magellan.    

      The Space Center staff and volunteers love working with high schoolers and adults. It makes a nice change from the school field trips.  We especially like high school prom season. We had a prom group yesterday.  The Space Center provides an excellent day activity on prom days.  Go to SpaceCenter.AlpineSchools.org to book a mission for your older group. 

Imaginarium Theater. 

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