Unique supplies needed for virtual camps will be mailed to campers homes. In addition to the 1 hour per day on screen (2 hours if you sign up for both the morning and afternoon session) with your Mad Scientist, there will be additional activities for children off screen. Each day will have a theme. If you register for a morning and afternoon session, the activities will be different and follow the daily theme.
Monday 6/15 Day 1: Morning Session: Get ready to become a NASA engineer! Using Mars rovers Spirit, Curiosity and Opportunity as inspiration, you will design and construct your own planetary pasta rover. Use your knowledge of physics to create a landing pod that will ensure your astronauts are treated to a gentle landing.
Tuesday 6/16 Day 2:Morning Session: NASA needs you to develop a heat shield that can protect a space craft entering the atmosphere of Mars. You will build and test your heat shield to ensure that it is strong enough to pass the test. With the Canadarm2 as your guide, learn the importance of robotic arms and how they help people work on Earth as well as in space.
Wednesday 6/17 Day 3:Morning Session: Discover how a Starshade shields a telescope's camera from the light of a distant star and create a smaller version to keep for yourself. Design and construct a solar sail that must deploy from the launch tube, unfurl and support itself upright on a flat surface!
Thursday 6/18 Day 4:Morning Session: You will use the creative thinking strategy of SCAMPER to suggest improvements for a variety of technologies and designs. Your mission is to then re-design and create a prototype based on your SCAMPER results.
Friday 6/19 Day 5:Morning Session: Discover how Deep Space Network is used to communicate back and forth across the solar system and how signals are decoded. Learn how to use the only language computers or spacecraft understand. Learn about spatial awareness as you train like an astronaut in the Mission Control game. Practice your hand-eye reaction time in the Speed of Light challenge.
Date: June 15-19
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Fee: $120
Instructor: Mad Science Staff