A Walk Down Memory Lane: The Overnight Camp Camper Satisfaction Inventory. February 15-16, 2008. Cherry Hill Elementary. The Imaginarium.

Hello Troops,

Today's young Space Center volunteers will never experience a Space Center Overnight Camp so I thought I'd post one of the overnight camp surveys from an overnighter we ran in February 2008.

You'll notice that some of the questions asked way back in 2008 are similar to questions asked on today's camp surveys.  And for you old timers, take a moment for a stroll down memory lane to the post-camp meeting in Discovery where the results of the camp were announced and the trophies awarded.  

And Congratulations to Spencer Dauwalder for taking the top score for the camp! 

Enjoy,
Mr. Williamson

Overnight Camp Camper Satisfaction Inventory. February 15-16, 2008.  Cherry Hill Elementary.

Stacy Briefs her Crew for the February 15th Overnight Camp

Hello Troops:
Here are the results from the student survey taken by the campers at the end of the Overnight Camp of February 15-16, 2008. This camp was sponsored by the students of Cherry Hill Elementary and our Frequent Flyers. There were 42 campers.

Our Flight Directors were:

Voyager: Bradyn L. (Shadows: 10 campers)
Phoenix: Megan Warner (Olympia: 6 campers)
Odyssey: BJ Warner (Outlaws: 7 campers)
Galileo: Spenser Duwalder. (Parameter: 5 campers)
Magellan: Brittney VandenBoss. (Red Storm Rising: 14 campers)
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The first question: Think about your story in the simulators. Were they fun? Did it have good characters? Did it challenge your brain or way too easy to solve?

Here are their choices:

A = 1
B = 2
C = 3
D = 4
F = 5

Here are the results. Remember, a 1 is a perfect score.

Voyager story's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.70)

Galileo story's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.60)

Magellan story's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.20)

Odyssey story's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.13)

Phoenix story's quality score: 1.33 (Last camp's score: 1.67)

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE VOYAGER, GALILEO, MAGELLAN AND ODYSSEY FOR TAKING TOP STORY HONORS.

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The next question: How would you grade the Staff of the simulators? Think about friendliness, helpfulness, and acting.

Voyager staff's quality score: 1.10 (Last camp's score: 1.20)

Galileo staff's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.60)

Magellan staff's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.00)

Odyssey staff's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.13)

Phoenix staff's quality score: 1.50 (Last camp's score: 1.00)

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GALILEO, MAGELLAN, AND ODYSSEY FOR TAKING TOP STAFF HONORS.
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The next question: How much did you enjoy your job in the simulators?
Choices: (1 = Great; 2 = Good; 3 = OK; 4 = Not So Good; 5 = Bad)

Voyager job's quality score: 1.50 (Last camp's score: 1.60)

Galileo job's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.40)

Magellan job's quality score: 1.29 (Last camp's score: 1.40)

Odyssey job's quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.50)

Phoenix job's quality score: 1.67 (Last camp's score: 1.50)

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GALILEO AND ODYSSEY FOR TAKING TOP JOB HONORS.

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The next question: Did you feel doing your job made a difference in the mission?

The Camper's choices were: Yes(1) Maybe (2) No (3)

Voyager making a difference quality score: 1.30 (Last camp's score: 1.40)

Galileo making a difference quality score: 1.00 (Last camp's score: 1.20)

Magellan making a difference quality score: 1.21 (Last camp's score: 1.13)

Odyssey making a difference quality score: 1.14 (Last camp's score: 1.38)

Phoenix making a difference quality score: 1.17 (Last camp's score: 1.00)

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GALILEO FOR TAKING TOP HONORS IN MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
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The final question: Would you like to come back to the Space Center again for another mission?

The Camper's choices were: Yes (1) Maybe (2) No (3)

Yes: 100% (42 students)
Maybe: 0% (0 students)
No: 0% (0 students)

The Director's Trophy: Overall Scores averaged:

Voyager: 1.18 LAST WEEK'S SCORE: 1.38
Magellan: 1.10 LAST WEEK'S SCORE: 1.15
Odyssey: 1.03 LAST WEEK'S SCORE: 1.25
Galileo: 1.00 LAST WEEK'S SCORE: 1.36
Phoenix: 1.33 LAST WEEK'S SCORE: 1.23

Overall Average: 1.13 Last Week: 1.27

The GALILEO is awarded the Director's Trophy! Super Job Spenser D. and his staff of one - Corbin, a Central student.

SATISFACTION SCORES:

Our Satisfaction Scores for the Overnight Camp. Campers were asked the following question at the end of their survey.

1. How would you rate your overall experience with this overnight camp?

Their choices follow:

10 = The most fun thing I've ever done in my life.
9
8
7
6
5 = As Good as watching my Favorite Movie for the first time.
4
3
2
1 = The Most Horrible, Boring time I've ever had.

The students are asked to rate the overall camp experience on that scale. They are given verbal instructions on the rating system to ensure comprehension.

Here are the results for today's overnight camp.

Voyager: This Week: 9.20 Last Week: 9.20
Galileo: This Week: 10 Last Week: 8.80
Phoenix: This Week: 9.67 Last Week: 8.00
Magellan: This Week: 9.29 Last Week: 9.80
Odyssey: This Week: 9.71 Last Week: 9.63

The GALILEO takes the Prize for Best Overall Score!

Overall Ranking by all campers for this Overnight Camp:
This Week's All Ship Average: 9.57 out of a perfect 10.
Last Week's All Ship Average: 9.09 out of a perfect 10

Thanks All for Another Great Overnight Camp!

Thanks for all you do to support the Space Center,

Mr. Williamson

The Imaginarium

What Farpoint Offers Utah's Students: Experiential Education at its Best. A Saturday Story with Programming Classes, Space Clubs, Development, and Private Missions. Do We Ever Sleep? Theater Imaginarium.

Coding Starts our Saturdays at Farpoint

It's ALL Go every Saturday at the Farpoint Space Education Center located on Utah's beautiful Silicon Slopes in Lehi.  

From 8:00 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. most Saturday mornings Farpoint offers the 2017-2018 Level 1 Programming Guild: Coding for Young Astronauts and Voyagers.  This is where the magic of starship and experiential simulations begins. Saturday our first crop of youngling programmers hit the keyboards to learn the basics.  We use GoogleCS as our curriculum. 

We're learning to code with SCRATCH.  This eight-week course will be the first of three offered to our cadets this school year.  From this Level 1 class, our cadets will have the option of advancing to the Level 2 program - the WebDev Guild sponsored by Alex and Crystal Anderson, Matt Ricks, and Isaac Ostler.  The WebDev Guild meets every other Saturday from 9:30 - 11:00 A.M. 

Want a peek at the cadets in action?  Take a look....

The Young Astronauts and Voyagers Arrive on the Heal of the Young Coders?

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 Ready for Any Challenge Space Has to Offer!

Saturdays from 9:30 - 11:30 A.M.  The Young Astronauts and Voyager Clubs Meet.  

Farpoint has 260 cadets in 3rd through 10th grade divided into 26 squadrons in this year's Young Astronauts and Voyager Clubs.  The 26 squadrons meet every late afternoon, Monday through Friday and Saturday mornings.  What a great bunch of young cadets. It will be a fun year.

11:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.  Thorium Testing.

The Magic of Experiential Simulation.  Farpoint Reserves Time on Saturdays for Imagineers to Test New Ideas and Software. That Next Cool Thing you Experience on a Starship Has to Start Somewhere.

Saturday's Thorium Bridge Software Test Crew

Farpoint prides itself in offering the Voyager as a testing facility for new ideas in experiential learning. Saturday was witness to the first official mission using the new Thorium bridge software. I asked Alex Anderson to write a summary of the event.

In programming, we say “Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.” Thorium has officially passed the first hurdle. It works. This past Saturday we successfully ran an entire test flight from start to finish! There were a couple of hiccups here and hiccoughs there, but overall it worked well. 
Huge thanks for Isaac Ostler, Matt Ricks, Crystal Anderson, and the whole Voyager staff for their help and support as Thorium goes through it’s growing pains. In the past few months, the controls have taken leaps and bounds in progress.
If you are interested in using the controls in your Space Center, have your center’s director get in touch with me. If you want to run the controls personally or at home, you can get the code from https://thoriumsim.com. You can also donate, which gives you access to a bundle of images and videos, a built version of Thorium, and credit on the Thorium website. 

Alex Anderson

Saturday is a Day for Private Missions at Farpoint

There isn't a Saturday that goes by without a private late afternoon/evening Starship Voyager mission at Farpoint. This Saturday the Voyager played host to a 4.5 hour mission booked through our partners at the Telos Discovery Space Center. 

How Do You Get Involved? 

I'm glad you're asking that question.  Contact me.  Director@SpaceCampUtah.org for more information.  SpaceCampUtah.org is another good place to start. It has links to the clubs and information on booking a private mission.  

Mr. Williamson

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