Overview
Austin Peay State University's Space Explorer Camp is back for another session in Summer 2025, running from June 23-27. The camp, designed for students from 10-14 years old, will be a full-day, weeklong day camp focused on space exploration and astronomy. The camp will provide campers with the opportunity to learn about planets, stars and what is up in the sky while also engaging in fun and exciting activities such as building telescopes, making craters and launching water bottle rockets.
Students will:
* Spend a full day at the APSU Observatory learning about telescopes. Students will build their own telescopes and use telescopes to safely view the sun.
* Explore the night sky using the school's 20-inch professional telescope and other smaller telescopes. The specific night will depend on sky conditions.
* Build and launch water bottle rockets and learn the basics of rocketry.
* Use computer-based activities and the Robert Sears Planetarium to learn about basic motions in the sky and constellations.
* Spend a full day exploring the planets of our solar system, learning about their size, characteristics, compositions and distance from the sun.
* Learn how craters are made and make craters themselves in simulated planetary bombardments.
* Handle meteorites from space!
* Build a 3D-printed model of the James Webb Space Telescope and learn about other NASA space observatories.
