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
SCIVIS 30th Anniversary!!
REGISTRATION WILL BE OPEN SOON!! LINK TO MATERIALS WILL BE ON THE HOME PAGE.
Camp dates for 2019, September 28 - October 3! (travel home October 4)
Program Costs: ALL PROGRAMS except Advanced $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
!! CREDIT CARDS NOW ACCEPTED FOR SCIVIS PAYMENTS
Credit cards can now be accepted for payment for most SCIVIS fees. As this isn’t a profit-making venture, 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.
I will not accept credit card payment for cards from institution or school districts that will have Tax Form 1099 accompanying payment. Those payments must be sent by check to the USSRC Education Foundation, Inc. Please contact me for more information.
All credit card payments will be charged the 3.75% fee. 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.
Lighthouse Scholarship Form Application Deadline: April 1, 2019
Northrop Grumman Scholarship Form Application Deadline: April 1,2019
Delta Gamma Scholarship Form Application Deadline: April 15, 2019
North Texas Space Camp Scholarship Application Deadline: May 6, 2019
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