We order the custom patches and the name badges from Wings and Things in Pensacola.http://wings-and-things.com/about.html

Hiring and rehiring is currently beginning for the spring season. Returning Crew Trainers might come in any time after January 1. It's a wait and see situation.

The counselors change fairly frequently. Those that are here in the summer might not be here in the winter. A lot of the counselors are still in college and go back to school in August. Be assured, you will be given a great counselor. You'll find that your attitude towards your counselor has a lot o...

It depends upon the capacity requirements that week. As Boomerang said, usually Academy and Advanced Academy are in Hab I with 7 beds per room, but there have been times when we've had to put those programs in Hab II.

You can send it to me. I'll get it to the right person.
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I'd recommend you contact Jitters through the email address she gave in the initial post. She is the recruiter for Crew Trainers and can answer all your questions.

Last I checked (though it's been a while), the jackets the counselors wear are not the same ones sold in the gift shop. You are correct, Vincent. My daughter was a counselor hired during a time when jackets were not issued. I bought one at the gift shop for Christmas and had to rearrange the patche...

The wings with the shuttle on the shield are normally issued to the Pathfinder program, a 3 day school/organization program that includes a shuttle mission. Astrotrek program, now called Surveyor program, does not receive wings, as they do not do a shuttle mission. That being said, occasionally we h...

There is one Brit in that group. He stayed on campus and explored some areas he'd not been to before. He was quite cheery about it.

That last one gives me chills, Hotdog! (speaking strictly as a non-representative of Camp)

The silver "Advanced Space Academy" wings were what we got when I attended the week-long adult program in 2007. That was the 25th annivesary year and we were told those were special wings just for that year. Yes, those (shiny pewter) were done just for the 25th anniversary year. Otherwise...

They are given for Best Mission, generally. They have been given for other awards in the past, but things change. The ones in the gift shop do not have the full stack.

Security wouldn't have bugged you too much, as long as you told them what you were doing. I've been known to pull into that spot for a mad dash in to the lobby area for work related stuff. I'd warn security and was in and out in less than 2 minutes. I don't recommend it during business hours though!...

Much better now. Thanks, Vincent!

gt0163c has it exactly in one. One accusation would be disastrous. I've removed young friends from my Facebook account once they attended Space Camp, just to remove any doubt; even though I am a family friend and know their parents well .

I have resources I can delve that someone walking off the street cannot. Unfortunately, the Academy patches haven't been available for sale for over 2 years, according to the gift shop manager. There are also none left in the stockroom (it happens occasionally). Sorry I couldn't be of more help. The...

You can send him an email via [email protected]. Counselors are not allowed to give their private email to trainees and are not allowed to enter into correspondence with child trainees.

Why do they scare people so much? For being so resilient, they don't live up here. Not off topic at all! They are the very reason we don't want food in the Hab! They are nasty, disease carrying pests and they're so honking big! *shivers* And by the way, some of them bite. They don't live in Canada ...

I think it's something they do regularly for EVAs.

Yep. For the weeklong camps counselors carry a camera and take photos of all the activities. These are loaded onto DVDs and sold at grad. Counselors are very used to taking photos.

Or you could have someone at Camp look and ask at the gift shop. I'll try to swing by there this afternoon.