Space Camp analyzing decline in attendance

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:38 pm

OKay well i love camp, and it isnt too hard on my brain...just my wallet. I love thinking anomalies though lol they are fun....not. Everyone know pyschological anomalies ROCK MY SOCKS OFF! Anyway, yeah the price goes up but the quality in a way goes down. That would drive me away if i were not already addicted to this place. I think the quality of the logbooks and stuff has gone down, but the quality of the counselors hasnt really....they make all the difference to me sometimes. I love counselors! wooo! I also love EDMS but thats okay.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:36 am

Oh, yeah, it's the counselors that make the diff. If I has Smiley, I would have gone insane with the circle trick. Luckily I had 'Drea and Brent. Brent was an okay counselor, though he does good EDMs. 'Drea was a lot of fun because she wasn't much older than us. She knew how we felt about things and let a lot slide. She was more of a teammate than a counselor.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 9:31 am

Man smiley and tony had us playing the circle game all week during Christmas Camp. When I went back in March I was playing the dern circle game with you guessed it, Smiley and Tony. AHhhh! I can't just let them get me, but not get them back! Right its okay I am going to camp in 7 days and I will get smiley at least.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:13 pm

Who was it that neede counseling again? I can't stand that game!

It's so stupid!!!!!

HighSpeed03 · Post by **HighSpeed03** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:39 pm

You think you guys have it bad? Try working with them! I swear I get caught on the circle game every time Smiley is around!

To comment on the other subject: I don't think that more "nerds" come to camp then "non-nerds". It shouldn't matter whether or not you fall in one of those categories. This camp is about having fun .. learning about space (and planes) .. meeting new people ..and having funny.. cause trust me there aren't many nerdy counselors!

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:00 pm

We all know that, but do the people who think camp is nerdy? I doubt it. We need to change peoples' thinking about the whole issuse.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 2:54 pm

I agree. The people who think camp is nerdy have no idea what they're missing out on.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 7:39 pm

HighSpeed03 wrote:You think you guys have it bad? Try working with them! I swear I get caught on the circle game every time Smiley is around!

AHH we played it with him all week and it drove me crazy. Especially when both Tony and he would get me at the same time. Hey there are some nerdy counselors. I have met a few of them!

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:27 pm

My team was on tv. There was a news crew there on Tuesday and they interviewed a member of my team and then we all got to say where we were from and yelled out our team name. They were there to do a story on declining attendance.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 7:02 pm

Thats super cool! One time when I was there, they picked the USSRC to introduce the Mercedes M Class and we were on TV. I have no idea why though because I wasn't paying attention.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:26 pm

monkeynautt wrote:They were there to do a story on declining attendance.

There seem to be several of those lately.

ethlar04 · Post by **ethlar04** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 9:37 pm

I had heard from several of the councelors that the attendance at camp was at an all time low, with the exception of the week where an Austrailian school sent its students and a few other weeks. Also to help cope with the reduction in attendance Space Camp has closed their Florida and California locations

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Ethan

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 10:36 pm

I was there the week that the Australian school sent their kids. It was fun.

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Fri Jul 18, 2003 10:38 pm

Some of the shorter programs (like Astrotrek and P/C) are actually doing better (by 34%). When looking at overall attendence, the decline has seemed to reach a plateau, which is good.

I don't know much about the California camp, but Florida only had the Camp program. Though attendence was already in decline, it got worse after 9/11/01 when parents just didn't want to send their young kids away by themselves.

monkeynautt · Post by **monkeynautt** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:15 pm

For mine and Ethan's week only two teams were full at ASA and there were only 4 teams. Two had 13 (but we started with 15).

ethlar04 · Post by **ethlar04** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:50 pm

Another possible cause is that there are large groups of people who are getting too old for camp at the same time. Almost my whole team from last year was 18 and we werent the only group with that situation. With people no longer being able to attend and not having enough new people it is causing the issues camp is having. Solution: we need to convince more of our friends to come to camp.

stargazer0105 · Post by **stargazer0105** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:40 pm

True, it's hard though. The week I went (the week before you guys went) our team was the only full team of 18, and there were only 3 teams total.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 8:50 pm

monkeynautt wrote:For mine and Ethan's week only two teams were full at ASA and there were only 4 teams. Two had 13 (but we started with 15).

Well I am here now, and this week there are 5 full Advanced Academy teams. Something like 90 people I think it is.....so the ASA program is doing quite nicely this week.

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:14 pm

Well i'm glad all the ASA teams are full this week thats a good sign that business isn't doing too bad.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 9:15 pm

Yeah well it is making scheduling hell! But other than that its great! There are lots of people to play with!