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    Missouri S&T Summer: Space – The Final Frontier

    Details

    • Listing Type: Summer Programs
    • Program Delivery: Residential
    • Provided By: College
    • Session Start: July
    • Session Length: One Week
    • Entering Grade: 10th, 11th, 12th
    • Category: STEM
    • Sub-Categories: STEM, Engineering, Aerospace
    • Selective: No
    • Minimum Cost: $500 - $1,499
    • Career Clusters: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
    • Credit Awarded: No
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    Overview

    Using high school-level math and science skills, each camper will design and construct a small spacecraft that they will then help launch on a high-altitude balloon to 100,000 feet. Throughout the camp, instruction will include satellite building and testing, laboratory tours, and interviews with aerospace engineering faculty and students. The camp will conclude with a high-altitude balloon launch, during which campers will track their satellite as it travels to the edge of space.

    Camp Activities include:

    • Introduction to soldering and electronic basics
    • Introduction to Arduino programming and sensors
    • Design and construction of satellite structure
    • Ground testing and troubleshooting
    • Launch logistics and tracking
    • Q&A with Aerospace Engineering Students
    • Tour of Space Systems Engineering Laboratory