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AstroGirl · Post by **AstroGirl** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:32 pm

Hello. I am new to this forum and I thought I'd introduce myself. I found this page completely by accident when searching google.com for a space related AIM buddy icon. I have been to space camp three times, once to Academy and twice to Advanced Academy, and it was a great time all three times. I would like to go again except that I am a senior in high school now and will be too old. Nooooooooo! Maybe I can be a counselor when I'm old enough. Anyway, just introducing myself.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:13 pm

When did you go to ASA?

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:56 pm

Your never too old for space camp!!!! seriously.

AstroGirl · Post by **AstroGirl** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:39 pm

spacecampaddict28 wrote:When did you go to ASA?

I went I want to say week 40, it was sometime at the end of June, in 2001 and 2002. It was the same week both times. The first time there were a lot of Australian kids there, and there was a rivalry between Von Braun and Gagarin that involved a rope and a flag. I was on Shepard, but I was in the bunk room with a lot of Von Braun kids, so I was invoved (as I just reminisced in another post). Does anyone remember that? Our team also won the MS award both years :waves MS flag:. Go team! I miss the egg drop, because our team rocked at that. The straw plane victory was all because of this one kid's plane that was better than everyone else's, lol. But it was still fun. If I can dig up a thousand bucks I'll go next year, and drag along my boyfriend, because he's only been to Academy and not Advanced, and that's just sad!

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 9:53 pm

seriously they need to bring back the egg drop. i have been asking about that for two years now....they should totally bring it back! Nothing against the straw airplanes or anything but dropping an egg from the 3rd floor is awesome.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 9:59 pm

I agree, nothing makes you feel better than bragging that your egg lived lol. Sadly my egg never lived lol.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:00 pm

Oh well mine didn't either but I like throwing things and it was fun to drop it and hear that egg cracking sound!

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:03 pm

Plus the excitment and then let down when you open the carrier to find a perfectly splatterd egg..

AstroGirl · Post by **AstroGirl** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 10:54 pm

Ah, the egg drop. :drops into remeniscing mode: It happened just after I'd been in MOCR for the first 1 hour mission, and I was rather sad because I felt it was my fault that the MS's had died (I didnt know then that they always did). So I wanted to prove that I wasnt defective, and save the egg. So did the rest of us. And it wasn't good enough to save the egg, we had to do it using only the default cardboard and duct tape. So this one guy in our group designed a pyramid capsule thing, and it was really cool, but we still didnt know how to save the egg. So we had this whole idea of making a brace out of cardboard and then this one girl suggests making a net out of duct tape but we didnt think it would work, but then "net" made me think "nest" and I was like "If we just shred the rest of the cardboard and put it in there, it should save it, right?" And no one believed me, but we did it just for extra support, and it ended up saving it (the brace plan was used but it was really just kind of there, I honestly dont know whether or not it would have worked by itself). And so we did that and it worked and it was such a glorious moment. :end remensicing: I think they stopped so people like us wouldnt come back and do that every year LOL. The egg drop second year I went is my favorite space camp moment EVER.

Space Nerd · Post by **Space Nerd** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 12:33 am

The last year they did it a girl on my team and Nathalie spent the rest of the week comming up with a design that would be fail proof. They finally did it sadly they didnt do egg drop any more lol.

spacecampaddict28 · Post by **spacecampaddict28** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 10:11 am

Ours in theory would have been perfect, but the whole impact with the ground thing is really hard on the poor egg. It was suspended within a multi-sided box (like 7 sides) inside a balloon. In theory there was enough shock absorbtion going on, but sadly mr. egg didnt make it.

AstroGirl · Post by **AstroGirl** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 10:40 am

Yeah ... We did an egg drop at the camp I went to this summer, but it was very different. The object wasn't to throw the egg off the landing with as few materials as possible, rather, it was "Let's see what stuff we can throw out a window ... and attatch an egg to it." Ours was pretty cool looking, but unfortunately a lot of groups used the same idea, so we didn't get many creativity points for it. Anyone who's interested in Engineering should go to the four day high school engineering institute in Boulder. It is so crazy fun