Blackrock Castle Observatory announce details of “Space Camp 2010”
Posted on May 24th, 2010 in General
Good news for budding young astronauts – Cork Institute of Technology’s Blackrock Castle Observatory has revealed further details surrounding this year’s “Space Camp”, held at the Observatory for each of the last three years. Plans for “Space Camp 2010” include the usual space-themed workshops and this year, the camp will finish with participants building and launching their own rockets to launch from the observatory.
Themes for this year’s workshops have also been revealed, and will include topics like “Mars – the Red Planet”, “Comets and Craters”, and “The Search for Alien Life”.
The camp, aimed at children between the ages of 8 and 12, will be run at the Observatory through six sessions of daily workshops during July and August, and admission will cost €95 per child.
The aim of the camp is, according to camp coordinator Frances McCarthy, to “encourage and foster an interest in all things space-related”.
“We want to show exactly how all things astronomical impact on our daily lives”.
The schedule of the camp will run as follows:
JULY
- 5th-9th: MORNING (10am-12:30pm) or AFTERNOON (2pm-4:30pm)
- 19th-23rd: MORNING (10am-12:30pm) or AFTERNOON (2pm-4:30pm)
AUGUST
- 9th-13th: MORNING (10am-12.30pm) or AFTERNOON (2pm-4:30pm)
Further details of the camp can be found by clicking here.
