Space
Camp for
Interested
Visually
Impaired
Students
SCIVIS Creed
"We are all here to learn with our peers. Let us celebrate our similarities and our differences. Let us respect other cultures, religions, and languages. At our beginning, many were given little chance but due to the people in our lives, we find ourselves in a wonderful place with wonderful people. Let us flourish in our learning, find joy in our experiences and remember our friends and knowledge we gained at Space Camp." -- Dan Oates
Note: the forms on this site are specifically for blind and visaually impaired students attending Space Camp for Interested Viaually Impaired Students. Go to Space camp for form and programming information for non-visually impaired students
Program Dates: Information
Registration - Sat. Sept 26, 2020, no earlier than 11 AM (see Note below)
Graduation - Thurs. Oct 1, 2020.
Departure - Friday Oct. 2, 2020
Program Costs: $965 - Camp, Academy, Mach I, II, III, Robotics
Program Cost for Advanced Academy $1135
NOTE: Transportation to/from airport will be $50, Early Arrival / Late Departure will be $99
Students arriving before 11 AM for registration will have to pay a $25 day-of-early-arrival fee UNLESS a chaperone is responsible for the students. Registration will not start before 11 AM.
HOW TO PAY FOR SCIVIS
As the SCIVIS group leader, all payments must be received by Dan Oates. Invoices are available upon request. Space Camp invoices the SCIVIS coordinator and a total payment is then forwarded to Space Camp for the program. All grants are accepted directly by the U. S. Space and Rocket Center Education Foundation and credited to the SCIVIS account. Payment can be made in several ways:
- Credit cards can be accepted for payment for most SCIVIS fees. There will be fees attached to all credit card payments. We will be using a Square device to accept credit cards. Square charges a fee of 3.75% for credit cards not present, in other words, cards taken over the phone.
- All credit card payments will be charged the 3.75% fee or the current fee at the time of transaction. If the card is present at the time of the transaction, i.e. day of camp, there will be an approximate discount of 1%. All of the fees are preset on my Square device.
- Rounded off transaction fees are added to each of the above items and discounted for card present transactions.
- For state, businesses, and government agencies that are required to have a W-9 and issue a 1090 form, I will need to register as a business with your agency. Please begin this process as soon as possible as to not delay payment. The name of the business is Low Vision Consultative, LLC.
- PayPal is also an option. Once again fees for the transaction must be charged based on PayPal’s guidelines. Use the email address, scivis@atlanticbb.net to locate the account on PayPal.
- Personal checks can be mailed to Dan Oates, 190 Armstrong St., Romney, WV 26757. Personal checks should be made to Space Camp for the Blind.
If you have questions, please contact Dan Oates, scivis@atlanticbb.net or call 304-851-5680.
Lighthouse Scholarship Form Application Deadline: March 15, 2020
Northrop Grumman Scholarship Form Application Deadline: March 15, 2020
Delta Gamma Scholarship Form Application Deadline: March 15, 2020
North Texas Space Camp Scholarship Application Deadline: May 6, 2020
NASA Internships
NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships (NIFS) at http://intern.nasa.gov/. Summer 2016 internships run from early June until early August for college students and from late June until early August for high school students. All student interns get paid. Contact information for students with visual impairments Dr. Craig Moore (craig.e.moore at sign nasa.gov) or Dr. Robert Shelton (robert.o.shelton at sign nasa.gov.
News!
- SCIVIS 2015 Graduation video Thanks to Vincent Vazzo (Space Camp Hall of Fame - 2007) for recording and posting this!
- SCIVIS 2014 entire Graduation Video Huge Thanks to Vincent Vazzo for recording and posting this!
- Why attend Space Camp? - Kate's Story
- WAAY TV Newscast about SCIVIS 24 Sept. 2012
- SCIVIS Attendance Survey
- YouTube of a Heidi Jackson singing her original song about space. She will be attending SCIVIS in the fall. The lyrics are included on the YouTube page.
- A chance to Reach for the Stars
- SCIVIS video from AMI Sports Access Show in Canada. Filmed at 2013 SCIVIS
- Article from WonderBaby.org by students who attended SCIVIS
- Nic Boone, from Australia, attended SCIVIS in '99 and '00 is getting his Ph.D. in Astronomy. He is talking about his experiences at SCIVIS on YouTube.
- 2013 Photo Site
- NASA Podcast of SCIVIS 2011 Advanced Academy web conference with professional at NASA who are visually impaired. Contact Jim Allan if you want a disk version of the NASA Podcast.
- Interview about Space Camp, the movie A Smile a Wide as Big as the Moon, with 2 former SCVIS student and Dan
- **SCIVIS makes cover of Space Camp Program Guide**
- SCIVIS discussion group formed (Chaperones only)
- SCIVIS in the News Updated for 2011
SCIVIS is
- A week long camp that takes place at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama
- Coordinated by teachers of the visually impaired
- Accessible; computers used by students in the Space Camp Programs have been adapted for speech and large print output; materials and equipment used during missions are available in braille and large print
- Participatory - students participate fully (each student is screened based on their eye medical condition --limitations may be placed on some)
SCIVIS is actually 5 separate programs.
- Space Camp
- Space Academy
- Advanced Academy
- Aviation Challenge (Mach I, II, III).
- Robotics