Renaissance School teacher Eve Dubois attended the Honeywell Space Camp for Teachers at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama last summer. She had many adventures there including several astronaut training activities. In her own words, ”Every activity at Space Camp was out of this world, and the most valuable experience happened when I was operating out of my comfort zone, trying things I normally would not even consider.”  This summer she shared those experiences with a group of summer camp children.  She helped them to simulate a lunar landing, build a space station and orbiter, do planet observation using several different approaches, and build their own rockets. 

Click here for an article written by Eve about her time at the Space Camp for Teachers at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

Teacher Eve Dubois begins each day with a "morning briefing" for all the campers.

Campers construct a model space station and orbiter.

Campers work out the physics problems of keeping an occupant safe when landing on the moon. In this case, their occupants were eggs!

 Friday afternoon found teachers, children, families and friends gathered in the upper field at Shelburne Farms for a special rocket launch where each child had the opportunity to send their rocket into space.

It was an exciting week of imagining what it would be like to become space travelers and the many surprises to be found along the way. 

Food and friends-- a popular camp experience!