2010 Eileen Collins Aerospace Camp Schedule (Tentative)

Boys July 12 - 16

Girls July 19 - 23

Monday (July 12/19)

8:00-8:30 am   Parents drop off at NSM
8:45 am          Welcome, Introductions, Team Building

10:00 am        Leave for R/C Airplanes (Big Flats Field)

Noon              Leave R/C Field for NSM
12:30 pm        Lunch
3:00 pm          Helicopter R/C and GPS intro.
4:30 pm          Parent pickup at NSM

Tuesday (July 13/20)

8:30 am          Sailplane Rides
2:00 pm          Leave for Curtiss Museum
3:00 pm          Arrive at Curtiss Museum
4:30 pm          Leave for Hodgman Park
5:15 pm          Arrive Hodgman Park for Pizza

6:30 pm          Hot Air Balloon Rides (tethered)
8:30 pm          Leave for Hands On Glass
9:00 pm          Arrive Hands On Glass
10:30pm         Leave for NSM and Sleepover

Wednesday (July 14/21)

8:00 am          Breakfast (supplied by NSM)
8:30 am          Leave for Elmira-Corning Regional Airport Tour

8:45 am          Arrive at Elmira-Corning Regional Airport
10:00 am        Leave for Schweizer Aircraft (Helicopter Orientation)
10:15 am        Arrive Schweizer Aircraft

11:30 am        Leave for NSM for Lunch
1:00 pm          Power Airplane Ride From Harris Hill

1:00 pm          Hang Glider Orientation

3:00 pm          Launch Rockets

4:30 pm          Parent Pick-Up

Thursday (July 15/22)

8:15 am          Leave for Syracuse (Please Have Campers At NSM by 8am)

10:45 am        Arrive Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology
Noon              Lunch Site tbd
3:00 pm          Leave for NSM
5:45 pm          Parent pickup (Please Note Change in Pick-Up Time)

Friday (July 16/July 23)

8:30 am          Leave for Spacecraft Imagery (Cornell University)
10:00 am        Arrive at Spacecraft Imagery (Cornell University)
Noon              Lunch break

1:00 pm          Leave for Finger Lakes Skydivers (Ovid)
1:30 pm          Arrive at Finger Lakes Skydivers (Parachute Orientation)
2:30 pm          Leave for NSM
4:00 pm          Arrive at NSM for indoor picnic and ceremony

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