Come travel with us through Space and Beyond!!

Waitlist:

This summer program has reached capacity level. To be put on a wait list please call 473-7468 and speak with our Student Support Team.

Summer 2009 General Information (Parent) Handbook is now
available for download.
For more information, see our Download Center.

"I truly believe that if a student is motivated, he or she can achieve anything.  Aviation is the perfect motivation for a student to become a lifelong learner!"
-Megan Tucker, Aviation Fascination Instructor

Description:

• 1-week camp for students entering 4th through 6th grade
  
• Location: UWF's Combs Campus in Fort Walton Beach
• Immersed in activities dealing with:
• force and motion
• gravity
• flight
• simple rockets
• engineering
• parachutes
• air pressure
• aeronautical map skills
• math integration

What you will gain from this camp?

At Aviation Fascination Camp, you will gain certain knowledge and excitement that is contagious!  During this fast paced, engaging week, we will discover together how an airplane stays in the air, how a rocket takes off, how a parachute works, what it is like to be an engineer for NASA, and many more things. There will be TONS of interactive projects and activities to bring you firsthand into the world of aeronautics and aviation.  You will be flying high and will leave this camp with an innate LOVE of all things in the sky and will constantly be looking up to see what you will discover next.

Example Projects for 2009:

• Numerous paper airplane designs (gliders, helicopters, etc.)
• Balsa airplanes
• Air derby
• Stomp rockets
• Pop rockets
• Straw rockets
• Model rockets
• Parachute factory
• Potato astronaut
• Edible Clementine Spacecraft
• Lunar Core Sampling
• R.A.T. Drilling
• "Egg-bert" Shuttle Crash Simulation
• Strange New Moon
• Zulu Time and Phonetic Alphabet
• And MANY MORE………

*Normally our material fees are $25.00, but due to this camp receiving additional funding from an NDIA Grant we were able to lower the overall price.