The LodeStar Astronomy Center is offering a day camp called "Blast Off to Saturn!" The camps will be held Dec. 27-30, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The camp, designed for kindergarten through third grade students, offers a full day of educational and recreational activities centered around the ringed planet Saturn and the Cassini spacecraft mission. The same lesson plan is presented each day.
The fun-filled, educational and action-packed day camp includes:
* Saturn Play Station
* Opportunity to make new friends
* The Search for Life planetarium feature
* Build a Saturn spacecraft
* Motion simulator ride with the dinosaurs
* Mission to Saturn story time
* Planet walk in the park
* Mystery moons of Saturn scavenger hunt
* NASA Connect viedo story
* Sparkling Rings of Saturn group model
* Saturn sundaes ice cream art
The cost for the day-long camp is $45, but UNM employees receive a 10 percent discount on camp tuition. A brochure/application for the camp is available on LodeStar's website at LodeStar Astronomy Center.
LodeStar is a UNM community outreach project located in the New
Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science at 1801 Mountain Road NW.
For information call 841-5975.
Contact: Contact: Karen Keese, (505) 841-5972 or (505) 261-0040