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Investigate Space
& Explore Space
For
students entering grades 2 - 7
The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center offers five elementary camps that spark grade school children's interest in space. Choose between: Solar System, Lunar Base, Alien Adventure, Exploration Earth and Mars Academy. Maybe science isn't so bad after all.
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 SOLAR SYSTEM
Take a Journey to the Planets
5-day commuter camp (half days)
For students entering grades 2 & 3
20 participants per session
Price: $119
- Navigate outer space from our Mission Command Center
- Explore the sun through our telescope
- Journey the galaxy in our Planetarium
- Witness live rocketry demonstrations
Session 1 |
June 4-8, 2012: AM |
Open |
| Session 2 |
June 18-22, 2012: PM |
Open |
| Session 3 |
July 16-20, 2012: AM |
Open |
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LUNAR BASE
Launch Your Child's Interest in Space
5-day commuter camp (half days)
For students entering grades 3 & 4
20 participants per session
Price: $119
- Work with Mission Control to discover the exciting challenges of daily life on the Moon
- Examine (then eat!) totally cool experiments
- Create a space-themed painting
- Re-live the drama of the space race in our Hall of Space Museum
- Watch space science educators flash-freeze liquid oxygen ice cream, and then eat it!
Session 1 |
June 4-8, 2012: PM |
Open |
Session 2 |
June 18-22, 2012: AM |
Open |
Session 3 |
July 16-20, 2012: PM |
Open |
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ALIEN ADVENTURE
Seek Out New Life
3-day commuter camp (with one overnight stay)
For students entering grades 4 & 5
24 participants per session
Price: $169
- Design and build robots
- Seek out new life
- Observe microscopic organisms on Earth
- Explore the possibilities of environments and cultures beyond our planet
- Enjoy IMAX and Planetarium shows
Session 1 |
June 6-8, 2012 |
Open |
| Session 2 |
June 27-29, 2012 |
Open |
| Session 3 |
July 18-20, 2012 |
Open |
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Exploration Earth
Solve the Challenges of our Planet's Future
4-day commuter camp (with one overnight stay)
For students entering grades 5 & 6
30 participants per session
Price: $199
- Uncover how the Earth’s various ecosystems support life in space
- Check out discoveries at local nature centers, zoos and wildlife areas
- Build solar ovens and water filtration systems
- Design your own self-supporting habitat
Session 1 |
June 12-15, 2012 |
Open |
| Session 2 |
July 10-13, 2012 |
Open |
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MARS ACADEMY
Explore the Red Planet
3-day residential camp
For students entering grades 6 & 7
36 participants per session
Price: $249
- Plan a mission to Mars
- Design and build robots to explore the Red Planet
- Race your robonauts in competitive relays
- Perform Mars-themed science experiments in our Martian Laboratory
- Witness live rocketry demonstrations
Session 1 |
June 8-10, 2012 |
Open |
| Session 2 |
July 6-8, 2012 |
Open |
| Session 3 |
July 13-15, 2012 |
Open |
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Mars Academy tuition includes food and room and board. Mars Academy is conducted each summer at the Cosmosphere. Students stay in the Hutchinson Community College dorms and eat in the cafeteria. |
To register for
camp, inquire about scholarships or be placed on a
waiting list, please contact the education coordinator
at 620.665.9323 or
800.397.0330, ext. 323, or at laurieg@cosmo.org. |
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