Deke Slayton Space Camp 2019- Schedule for the week
Areas that are bolded list the different guest speakers and their topics.
There are 2 hours total per day of team building activities which will change and be different each session. Each student throughout the week will learn to both lead and follow as part of a team.
*Schedule and presenters are subject to change without notice
Monday:
8:00am- 8:15am- Student drop off at Museum
8:15am- 9:00am- Introductions, Daily team building activities
Aimee Schreiber- Youth Services librarian, Sparta Free Library
9:00am- 10:00am- Lesson block 1
9:00-9:20am- Alli Karrels- Executive Director, Deke Slayton Museum
Progression of transportation-evolution of the bicycle
9:20am- 10:00am- Michael Purucker, NASA- Planetary Magnetosphere Lab, chief of the Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center
Early days of NASA
10:00am- 10:30am- Deke Slayton video, morning snack
10:30am- 11:00am- STEM Teambuilding activity
11:00am- 12:00pm- Lesson block 3
Lynn Edwards, Mayo Health Clinic- Food and Nutrition Supervisor
Food, nutrition, and the importance of exercise in space
12:00pm- 1:00pm- Lunch Break
1:00pm- 2:30pm- Robotics/Rocketry
2:30pm- 3:00pm- Afternoon Break- STEM team building activity, snack
3:00pm- 4:30pm- Robotics/Rocketry
Afternoon: Drones with Michael Purucker
4:30pm- 5:00pm- Daily wrap up, log book reflection
Tuesday:
8:00am- 8:15am- Student drop off at Museum
8:15am- 9:00am- Daily team building activities
Aimee Schreiber- Youth Services librarian, Sparta Free Library
9:00am- 10:00am- Lesson block 1
Nate Newby- Project bio-medical Engineer at NASA (Skype from NASA facility)
Current NASA projects, Space X, Boeing vehicle, astronaut training, Mars
10:00am- 11:00am- Morning Break- STEM team building activity, snack
Michael Purucker, NASA- Planetary Magnetosphere Lab, chief of the Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center
11:00am- 12:00pm- Lesson block 2
Society of Women Engineers
12:00pm- 1:00pm- Lunch Break
1:00pm- 2:30pm- Robotics/Rocketry
2:30pm- 3:00pm- Afternoon Break- STEM team building activity, snack
3:00pm- 4:30pm- Robotics/Rocketry
4:30pm- 5:00pm- Daily wrap up, log book reflection.
Wednesday: (this is our one day that breaks from the schedule we use for the rest of the week; it is our off-site field trip day in which we travel to the airport and planetarium.)
8:00am- 8:15am- Student drop off at Museum
8:15am- 9:00am- Lesson block 1 (at Museum)
Laurel Brandt- Aviation and Navigation
The basic principles of flight
9:00am-10:30am- at field south of Sparta
Radio control airplane flyers demonstration
10:30am- 12:00pm- at the Sparta Pool
Sparta Pool- anti gravity experiment in water
12:00pm- 1:00pm- Lunch Break
1:00pm- 2:30pm- Afternoon
Visit to the Sparta Airport to see and explore airplanes in person
Watch Pilot Alaine Olthafer land her plane, learn about what it takes to be a pilot
2:30pm- 3:00pm- Driving to LaCrosse
3:00pm- 4:30pm
Visit to the Planetarium at University of Wisconsin LaCrosse
4:30pm- 5:00pm- Drive back to Sparta
4:30pm- 5:00pm- Daily wrap up, log book reflection.
Thursday:
8:00am- 8:15am- Student drop off at Museum
8:15am- 9:00am- Daily team building activities
Aimee Schreiber- Youth Services librarian, Sparta Free Library
9:00am- 10:00am- Lesson block 1
Chris Amundsen, Sparta STEM School teacher
Take off/landing procedures for entering/ exiting earth’s atmosphere- create heat shield
10:00am- 11:00am- Morning Break- STEM team building activity, snack
11:00am- 12:00pm- Lesson block 2
Dr. Dawn Kopacz, Assistant Professor of Practice in Meteorology – Climatology at University of Nebraska
Flight/launch weather conditions, weather satellites- how they’re launched, data they report
12:00pm- 1:00pm- Lunch Break
1:00pm- 2:30pm- Robotics/Rocketry
2:30pm- 3:00pm- Afternoon Break- STEM team building activity, snack
3:00pm- 4:30pm- Robotics/Rocketry
4:30pm- 5:00pm- Daily wrap up, log book reflection.
Friday:
8:00am- 8:15am- Student drop off at Museum
8:15am- 9:00am- Daily team building activities
Aimee Schreiber- Youth Services librarian, Sparta Free Library
9:00am- 11:00am-
Rocket Launch at Southside Elementary School in Sparta, Wi. Fire off the rockets that students have been building all week
11:00am- 12:00pm- STEM activity at Museum
12:00pm- 1:00pm- Lunch Break
1:00pm- 2:00pm- set up for graduation and party
2:30pm- 3:00pm- Afternoon Break- STEM team building activity, snack
3:00pm- 4:15pm-
Visit from Mark Lee, retired Viroqua NASA astronaut
4:15pm- 5:15pm- Daily wrap up, log book reflection, sign thank you cards
5:30pm-
Graduation for our astronauts in training, presentation of certificate of completion and special lapel pin by astronaut Mark Lee, the Sparta mayor, and Museum board president
PARTY- celebration including dinner afterward for the students and their families, the space camp instructors, donors of the space camp, and anyone else who has made a contribution to this wonderful project.