Exciting Space Camp for Students at UALR
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Updated: July 16, 2012
50 Arkansas students have spent the last week in space. They are participating in a special summer school at UALR.
A hands-on, critical thinking space camp.
It's a two-week Math and Science Summer Camp sponsored by Exxon Mobile. Instead of notes and lectures these kids go on field trips, build spacesuits and blow things up.
Engineering Recruiting Director Vernard Henley says the purpose of the program is to get students interested in Science, Math, and Engineering.
"They'll go to class, just like college students. They have labs, all the math classes, all the technology classes are hands on."
It's a rigorous schedule the students stay busy from 7 in the morning until 9 at night. But they say it's worth it.
