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Boy
Scout Programs
Customized programs available. Call for dates and pricing.
Robotics Merit Badge
Earn your Robotics Merit Badge
- Learn about the exciting field of robotics
- View full-scale replicas of robots used on the Moon and Mars
- Design robots and use computers to program them
- Make liquid oxygen ice cream
- Tour the Hall of Space Museum
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January 18, 2014
(with Underground Salt Museum)
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February 22, 2014 |
March 15, 2014 |
Pricing: $50 scouts / $25 adults
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Engineering Merit Badge
Earn your Engineering Merit Badge
- Find out what its like to be an engineer
- Design, build, and operate robots
- Dismantle household objects and discover how they work
- Tour the Hall of Space Museum
- See live rocket science demonstrations in Dr. Goddard’s Lab
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October 12, 2013 |
December 7, 2013
(with Underground Salt Museum)
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February 8, 2014
(with Underground Salt Museum) |
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Pricing: $50 scouts / $25 adults
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Space Exploration Merit Badge
Earn your Space Exploration Merit Badge
- Plan your own mission
- Build and launch model rockets
- Learn in-depth information about the Space Shuttle
- Tour of the Hall of Space Museum
- See live rocket science demonstation in Dr. Goddard's Lab
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October 19, 2013 |
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December 14, 2013
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February 15, 2014
(with Underground Salt Museum |
March 1, 2014 |
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Pricing: $50 scouts / $25 adults
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Astronomy
Merit Badge
Earn your Astronomy Merit Badge
- Examine the stars and planets through our state-of-the-art telescope
- Make your own telescope
- Tour the Hall of Space Museum
- View a show in the Justice Planetarium
Program dates
Pricing: $45 scouts / $20 adults
The Ultimate Combo Overnight
Earn your Space Exploration, Engineering and Astronomy Merit Badge
- Spend the night at the Cosmosphere
- Tour the Hall of Space Museum
- Enjoy IMAX, Planetarium and Dr. Goddard's Labe shows
- Build and launch model rockets
- Construct and operate robots
- View the night sky through state-of-the-art telescopes
- All meals are provided
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November 2, 2013 |
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March 29, 2014 |
April 12, 2014
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Pricing: $95 scouts / $40 adults
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The Cosmosphere and the Kansas Underground Salt Museum are making it possible for you to get the most out of your trip to Hutchinson. Earn a merit badge at the Cosmosphere during the day and then tour the salt museum and spend the night 650 feet underground.
The following dates are scheduled. You need to contact both the Cosmosphere and the Salt Museum to make arrangements for your group.
Click here for more details on staying 650' underground with your scout troop.
- Program dates
December 7, 2013
Engineering
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January 18, 2014
Robotics |
February 8, 2014
Engineering
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February 15, 2014
Space Exploration
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The Merits of Space Boy Scout Program**
Space 101: for Boy Scouts
5-Day Residential camp
For Scouts entering grades 6, 7 & 8
Earn 5 merit badges: Space Exporation, Engineering, Weather, Aviation and Astronomy
- Train for the challenges of living and working in space using KAOS simulators: stress simulator, centrifuge, multi-axis trainer and Mission Control
- Build and launch a model rocket
- Enjoy an extended star observing session with state-of-the-art telescopes
- Learn the lessons of history in the Hall of Space Museum - Housing an Apollo White Room; the lost spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7; the Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey; a flown Russian Vostok and many other U.S. and Russian space artifacts
- Tie it all together as your team flies a low Earth orbit mission in the Falcon III spacecraft simulator
Program dates
Session 1 |
July 23-27, 2013 |
Open |
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Pricing: $549 per scout
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For
more information
or to register
for a program, contact Education Coordinator,
Laurie Givan at 800-397-0330
or at laurieg@cosmo.org.
*Cancellation policy: If a scout troop cancels within 72 hours of a scheduled program, there will be a $25 fee accessed. If a troop makes a reservation, does not show up the day of the program and has not given us notice, they will be billed $100.00.
**Each session is limited to 30 scouts. Special Scout tuition includes room, board and everything else campers need to enjoy their week. Scholarships are available. The deadline to apply for scholarships is April 5, 2013. Transportation between Wichita Mid-Continent Airport and the Cosmosphere is available for a fee. |
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