Deke Slayton Space Week

Name: Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Address: 200 W Main St, Floor 2, Sparta, WI, 54656, US
Telephone: +16082690033
Price range: $

Deke Slayton Space Week Schedule

Text in bold list the different guest speakers and their topics.

Monday

8:00am - 8:15am: Drop-off at museum
8:15am - 9:00am: Introductions, team-building activity
9:00am - 10:00am: Apollo 13 documentary
10:00am - 10:30am: Deke Slayton video, morning snack
10:30am - 11:00am: STEM team-building activity
11:00am - 12:00pm: Fred Haise, Apollo 13 lunar module pilot
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm: Robotics/Rocketry
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Afternoon break, STEM team-building activity, snack
3:00pm - 4:30pm: Robotics/Rocketry
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Daily wrap-up, logbook reflection
5:00pm: Pick-up at museum

Tuesday

8:00am - 8:15am: Drop-off at museum
8:15am - 9:00am: Team-building activity
9:00am - 10:00am: Jeff Bennett, NASA senior engineer, space station flight control system
10:00am - 11:00am: Morning break, STEM team-building activity, snack
11:00am - 12:00pm: Dr. Simon Gilroy, Professor of Botany at UW-Madison, growing plants off Earth
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm: Robotics/Rocketry
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Afternoon break, STEM team-building activity, snack
3:00pm - 4:30pm: Robotics/Rocketry
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Daily wrap-up, logbook reflection
5:00pm: Pick-up at museum

Wednesday (off-site field trip day)

8:00am - 8:15am: Drop-off at museum
8:15am - 9:00am: Laurel Brandt, aviation, navigation, and the basic principles of flight
9:00am -10:30am: Sparta Area Model Club, radio control airplanes demonstration
10:30am - 12:00pm: Sparta Pool, zero gravity experiment in water
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:15pm - 2:15pm: Sparta Airport, hear from pilots and explore aircraft
2:15pm - 3:00pm: Travel to La Crosse
3:00pm - 4:30pm: Planetarium at Central High School
4:30pm - 5:15pm: Travel to Sparta
5:15pm: Pick-up at museum

Thursday

8:00am - 8:15am: Drop-off at museum
8:15am - 9:00am: Team-building activity
9:00am - 10:00am: Chris Amundsen, Sparta Innovations STEM Academy teacher, heat shield
10:00am - 11:00am: Morning break, STEM team-building activity, snack
11:00am - 12:00pm: Dr. Dawn Kopacz, Associate Professor of Practice in Meteorology – Climatology at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, flight/launch weather conditions, weather satellites - how they’re launched, data they report
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm: Robotics/Rocketry
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Afternoon break, STEM team-building activity, snack
3:00pm - 4:30pm: Robotics/Rocketry
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Daily wrap-up, logbook reflection
5:00pm: Pick-up at museum

Friday

8:00am - 8:15am: Dop-off at museum
8:15am - 9:00am: Team-building activity
9:15am - 11:00am: Rocket launch at Southside Early Learning Center in Sparta, fire off the rockets that the space cadets have been building all week, family and friends are invited to attend
11:00am - 12:00pm: STEM activity, at museum
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:15pm - 2:15pm: Homer Hickam, retired NASA astronaut trainer
2:15pm - 3:00pm: Afternoon break, STEM team-building activity, snack
3:00pm - 4:15pm: Mark Lee, retired Viroqua, Wisconsin NASA astronaut
4:15pm - 5:00pm: Daily-wrap up, logbook reflection
5:00pm: Pick-up at museum
5:30pm: Graduation! Presentation of certificate of completion and special lapel pin by astronaut Mark Lee, the Sparta mayor, and museum board president followed by a dinner for the students and their families, Space Week instructors, and donors to Space Week. At American Legion in Sparta.

* Schedule and presenters are subject to change without notice.

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