HUTCHINSON, Kansas – Citizens Bank of Kansas (CBK) is partnering again this summer with the Cosmosphere International Science Education Center and Space Museum in Hutchinson to send six sixth graders to Cosmosphere Camp. CBK will award six scholarships – one for each of its branch locations in East Wichita, West Wichita, Kingman, Medicine Lodge, Pretty Prairie and Winfield.
Scholarship winners will attend the Cosmosphere’s Mars Academy camp, a three-day overnight camp
during which students build robotic sensor platforms to navigate a Martian landscape, construct a power grid, engineer and program robots, geocache to find their survival needs and build a Martian habitat.
Available 2017 summer dates for the Mars Academy camp are June 9-11, June 16-18, June 30- July 2 (all girls camp), July 7-9 and July 21-23.
To be eligible for consideration, participants must be entering sixth grade in the fall of 2017 and submit a 100- to 200-word original essay on “Why I want to attend Mars Space Camp at the Cosmosphere this summer.” Parental consent is required and essay entries are due April 1, 2017. Those interested should email: [email protected] to request a copy of the contest rules and an entry form.
“We’re excited to join the Cosmosphere in their endeavors to provide meaningful learning opportunities to students in our communities,” said Jane Deterding, chairman of the Board of Citizens Bank of Kansas.
“Our own kids have attended these camps and have come home with great stories of space exploration. Any parent who would love to hear stories like that should encourage their child to participate.”
Cosmosphere camps ignite curiosity. From second graders through high school seniors, Cosmosphere
campers spread their wings, expand their minds, and have fun they won’t find anywhere else on earth.
Campers have the opportunity to build robots and rockets, SCUBA train like astronauts, participate in
interplanetary missions to solve a crisis, learn to fly, understand the medical demands of long duration
space travel … and those are just some of ways kids can spend their summer at Cosmosphere camps.
For more information on Cosmosphere Camps, visit cosmo.org/explore/camps, email [email protected], or call 800-397-0330 ext. 323 or 620-665-9323.
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