The time has arrived to begin making plans for our second training exercise. Your mission, should you accept, is to complete a rocketry workshop, museum scavenger hunt, and simulator check-off at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. While there, you will also participate in training briefings, view the IMAX Hubble movie, take part in an interactive Outpost in Space demonstration, and tour Rocket Park, the Saturn V Center, and the main museum.
This training detail is scheduled for Friday, December 2nd; cadets will leave from Vaughan’s front flagpole at promptly 5:45 a.m. (arrive at 5:30 a.m.) and will stop on the way to Huntsville for a bite of breakfast. We will be at the Space and Rocket Center until late afternoon and will eat dinner on our way home. Cadets will arrive back at the front flagpole at 11:30 p.m. The cost of this training is $90, and it includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, transportation, snacks, and all museum activities. Permission forms and field trip money are due by Friday, November 18th. Cadets may want to bring a camera and no more than $20 spending money for this trip.
We will need parent squad leaders to chaperone our Huntsville training and the cost for parent chaperones should be around $110; the meals and admission are a little more expensive for chaperones, and I will not have an exact chaperone cost until I know how many individuals will be joining us. If you would like to help in this way, please fill out the chaperone sheet and return it no later than Thursday, November 10th. The Space and Rocket Center can only accommodate a certain number of chaperones for the Ultimate Field Trip Experience, but that number is pretty high, so many of you should be able to join us. If I end up having to draw names for chaperone positions, I will do so on Friday, November 11th. Please do not send in chaperone money until we know for sure who will be attending and what the final chaperone price will be. If you would like to chaperone, you can wait on sending in your child’s payment envelope until you receive notification on Friday, November 11th.
