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1、West Virginia Space Camp Team Information - 2013This years dates for the West Virginia SCI-VIS 2013 are now set, Sept. 21-26, 2013. All programs for this years programs serving the blind and visually impaired occur during the same dates. The dates are as follows:Space Camp - (Grades 4-6)Space Academ
2、y - (Grades 7-12) Advanced Academy - (Grades 10-12) AVIATION CHALLENGE, MACH 1 - (Grades 4-6) AVIATION CHALLENGE, MACH 2 - (Grades 7-12)AVIATION CHALLENGE, MACH 3 - (Grades 10-12)Dan Oates serves as the coordinator for SCI-VIS 2013 and is looking forward to your participation. This is his 24th year
3、for coordinating the program. Last years attendance was 161 students from 23 states, Canada, Trinidad/Tobago, St. Lucia, Australia, Israel and Ireland. 1. Registration this year, for the first time will be an on-line process managed by Space Camp. Parents will be responsible to go on-line and regist
4、er their child once they have been selected to the West Virginia Team. Tuition, plane fare, food and lodging will be paid for by a grant, pending funding, from the James H. & Alice Teubert Charitable Trust Foundation, Inc., in Huntington, W. Va. Our program will be limited to no more than 20 partici
5、pants. All materials must be turned in by the deadline to insure application consideration to the team.2. A $75 fee will be required of all students selected for the program. This fee will be non-refundable and will serve to insure participation in the program once the plane fares are secured. The f
6、ee will be made payable to the W. Va. Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. 3. We will be taking up to 15 Space Camp Team members from West Virginia. They will be spread out among the different programs: Space Camp (grades 4-6), Space Academy (grades 7-12), Advanced Academy (grades 10-12), Aviation Ch
7、allenge, MACH 1 (grades 4-6), Aviation Challenge, MACH 2 (grades 7-12), and Aviation Challenge, MACH 3 (grades 10-12). Students will be accepted from the West Virginia School for the Blind, county public schools and private schools. For acceptance to the West Virginia team students must meet eligibi
8、lity requirements for services for blind and visually impaired as determined by Policy 2419. Your application forms are due April 15, 2013.4. Teachers of the visually impaired from the public school and W. Va. School for the Blind will serve as chaperones for the trip. Space Camp is an exciting lear
9、ning experience, it is also physically and emotionally demanding of all children. The schedule begins early in the morning (about 7 am) and ends late at night (about 9 or 10 PM or later). Independence requiring daily living skills, i.e. bed making, hygiene, eating skills, etc., are a must. Rooms are
10、 inspected daily and need to be kept clean and orderly. Please consider those qualifications before talking to your student about the weeks adventure.All students should bring their telescopes, magnifiers and other low vision devices. Braille and large print are provided. If you are a cane traveler
11、you must bring your cane. This is not an option. Adaptations for speech, refreshable Braille displays, and screen enlargement software for Advanced Academy Mission Control are being provided by the West Virginia School for the Blind and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. We will attempt to have CCTVs
12、 and other devices on the training room floor. Last year equipment and monetary donations from Enhanced Vision were a BIG HELP!SCUBA diving is available to those students in Advanced Academy only. Diving is contingent upon the divers health the day of the scheduled dive. The medical staff at the U.S
13、. Space and Rocket Center has the finally word. No exceptions!Students applying to the Advanced Academy program should excel in their science and math classes and be strongly considering college as a post-graduate alternative. Students can earn one college credit for completion of the Advanced Acade
14、my program for up to three years of attendance. Keyboarding skills are a must for this program.If the staff at the West Virginia School for the Blind can be of any service to your SPACE CAMP team prior to your arrival, please let us know. Dan Oates can be reached at his cell 304-851-5680 or GOOD LUC
15、K and keep in touch !APPLICATION PROCESS FOR SELECTION TO THEWEST VIRGINIA SPACE CAMP TEAM 1. ESSAY 11A. This question is for students applying to the Space Camp (grades 4-6) Select one of the planets in our solar system. Within your essay discuss the date of the discovery, the astronomer who discov
16、ered it and what would happen to you if you lived there. Answers must be at least one page written or two pages Braille and no longer than two pages of print and four pages Braille.1B. This question is for students applying to the Space Academy Select a prominent figure in the field of aerospace technology, i.e. astronaut, or scientist, and discuss his/h
