Category: Travel and Tourism
Who is going to space camp this year in Huntsville Alabama?
I take it you are? Lucky you! Space camp is a blast! Have you been before? Too bad I'm an adult, or I'd go again.
What is the age limit?
Well, the program I think Keri is talking about, called SCIVIS, is for middle and high school students. (The acronym SCIVIS stands for space camp for interested visually impaired students.) The Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville does have a weekend space camp for adults, but it's not adapted for blind people as the SCIVIS week is. I did go back for the weekend program as an adult, with a friend of mine, but it's not nearly as fun or intensive as the student program is. Still, if you've never been down there and are interested, but beyond high school, I'd recommend the adult program over nothing at all.
Interesting, I'm unfamiliar with these events.
Do they have a space camp for sighted kids? Just curious. Not that my daughter would do anything other than 'eeww, daad!' at my mention of paying for such an occasion, but certainly there must be kids interested and parents willing for them to do it.
Just curious, as, like I said this is all news to me.
Oh yeah, pretty much all of the programs that go on down in Huntsville are for sighted kids. It's just this one week, usually at the end of September, where everything is adapted for blind students. They do the same activities the sighted students do, but for that week, everything is provided in Braille, large print, audio, or a combo thereof. they didn't used to have that: a guy named Dan Oates from the West Virginia school for the Blind teamed up with them to start it, back in 1989, I'm thinking, but I could have the year wrong.
My friend Kaitlyn went a few times, and I've heard nothing but good stories from her about it, but I never did get to go myself. I really wish I could have.
Too bad they don't offer it in the summers, as more blind kids would be able to go on account of school / not having to make up homework, though I know now with technology it's easier to do that now than it was for us.
Any homework I had to make up was more than worth it when I went there.
Yay SCIVIS is awesom, it is for four through twelve grades. This year is my forth year, and my last. Yay I love Dan and hey alicia he's from my state so :P. lol maybe this should have been in the teen topics. lol don't think many check the travel board. :)
I went in 05. A friend and I traveled there on one of those really small planes.
Your fourth, Keri? So not fair! Lucky you! I only got to go for two of them, but they were so awesome!
They are sooooo fun.
Ok guys. Anyone going this year? I'll be in Moc3!!!!
damn, I wish I had known about space camp for blind children when I was still in high school. Sucks i'm not finding out about it until now. I'm twenty-two. wonder if I could pass for a fifteen-year-old since I'm short enough, and apparently, I look younger than I am. lol JK. Anyway, to the last poster, have a great time and please keep us posted on your experience this year.
awwww. This year will be my last. :(
Live it up all you can, Keri. You'll never get those weeks back. I know that sounds cliche, but I mean it. I'd give anything to be able to go again. But the more people I hear about who didn't know about it, and therefore never got the chance to go, the more I realize how priveleged I am that I got to go at all, let alone twice.
A friend of mine went to Space camp, and I'm wondering what happenes there, and how would I register? Are the students chosen randomly?
Matthew
I imagine you, Alicia, of all people didn't waste the opportunity. Don't feel bad you went twice when some of us never went.
This also sounds cliche but I don't regret keeping a journal (of sorts) when I went to Japan. I didn't keep it, but the fact I wrote things down at the time did cause them to stick.
I wish I could have gone. I never had the internet and I didn't live in a city or town growing up so I didn't find out about any of these sort of things until during or after college. It's a shame that the adult program is only over a weekend, and is not adapted for the blind/visually impaired.