Space Camp is currently hiring for the spring 2006 season. In fact, they’re looking to hire as many as 100 new counselors to start training January 16, 2006!
Become one of the few, the proud! Become a Space Camp counselor, and get paid to play (essentially)!
Details and the paper work can be found at Space Camp HR’s website.
And with the new pay structure, you’ll pocket even more of that “Mad Phat Space Camp Money” (pardon me).
If you’ve even been unhappy with Space Camp’s pay for its counselors, or wanted to work a Summer as a Space Camp counselor, but weren’t sure if financially it would work out well for you, well, this might be just the thing you’ve been waiting for: Better pay, more opportunities!
Here’s the breakdown:
Counselor I
Pay: $7.25/hr base pay
Requirements: Must be high school graduate and at least 18 years old.
1 week of training
Shifts: morning, afternoon, evening, Saturday and/or Sunday – all day
Trained in: Astrotrek Simulators, Museum simulators and Aerospace Support or Museum Guide and Outpost in Space
Counselor II
Pay: $8/hr base pay, $0.25/hr increase to base for each certification (briefing staff/scheduling staff/robotics track/aviation track/Advance Academy and/or Mach III/Corporate, 8-day or 13-day programs)
2 weeks of training
Shifts: Day shift (7-3), Night shift (3-11), Weekend shift: Friday & Saturday (7a-11p) and Sunday (7-3)
Requirements: Must have 2 years of college
Trained in: Space Camp/AC team leader, TCF or AC simulations, and museum simulators
Counselor III
Pay: $9/hr base pay + $.25/hr increase to base for each certification (briefing staff/scheduling staff/robotics track/aviation track/Advance Academy and/or Mach III/Corporate, 8-day or 13-day programs)
3-4 weeks of training
Requirements: MUST HAVE OPEN AVAILABILITY (able to work any shift) Must have 2 years of collegeTrained in: Space Camp/AC team leader, weekend program team leader, TCF or AC Simulations and museum simulators
So the episode of the Amazing Race filmed this past Summer at Space Camp has come and gone.
It’s always fun to get a look at the place on national television! You’re very photogenic, Space Camp!
A thorough write-up of the episode can be found at this website if you weren’t able to catch the episode when it aired:
The remaining four teams are now on the second bus (the Aiellos, missing the point, think they beat the Weavers; no, you’re tied) to the mystery location, which turns out to be Huntsville, Alabama. The clue upon arriving directs them to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Luckily this proves easy to find, being as there’s a giant rocket sticking up into the sky at it.
So the episode of the Amazing Race filmed this past summer at Space Camp has come and gone.
It’s always fun to get a look at the place on national television! You’re very photogenic, Space Camp!
A thorough write-up of the episode can be found at this website if you weren’t able to catch the episode when it aired:
The remaining four teams are now on the second bus (the Aiellos, missing the point, think they beat the Weavers; no, you’re tied) to the mystery location, which turns out to be Huntsville, Alabama. The clue upon arriving directs them to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Luckily this proves easy to find, being as there’s a giant rocket sticking up into the sky at it.
Episode three of The Amazing Race 8 which will feature contestants at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center will air this coming Tuesday at 9PM (EDT).
I hope that most visitors will please pardon this post, as it has nothing to do with Space Camp, Aviation Challenge, or the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
I wasn’t going to make this post here, but then I figured what’s the point of having a well-trafficked site if I’m not going to take advantage of it at least once in a while (the Katrina-related Humane Society ad being the other occasion).
Okay, here goes:
December is rapidly approaching and I will be graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a shiny degree in Computer Engineering.
And so it goes that I am going to be in need of a job. If you’re in need of a good engineer, who could be better to work with then a fellow Space Camp alumnus?! And I’ve got an extensive skill-set, to boot!
Please feel free to drop me an email (my first name @ this domain) and I’ll get my resume to you, post haste.
Other than the Great Moonbuggy Race being called off only to be on again, things are pretty quiet around Space Camp.
Then again, we are moving into the Fall. Of course, if there is something going on in front of or behind the scenes that I’m not aware of, please feel free to let me know!
In the event that you missed the airing of the Space Camp segment on “The Early Show” on CBS, they have it posted online!
You can view the adorable segment here (it’s under “Multimedia” on the right side).
Congratulations to Kate and Phil for making national TV! Sort of a neat perk of the job, in a way, eh?!
You’re going to have two opportunities to see the Space & Rocket Center on television!
First, contestants of the show, “The Amazing Race,” stopped by the USSRC to film segments of the contestants in the museum, Rocket Park, and Aviation Challenge.
Details can be read here and here.
From the Huntsville Times:
Between midnight and 4 a.m., one by one, a fleet of eight to 10 GMC Yukons rolled out of the parking lot and sloshed down Interstate 565, got off at exit 15 and headed toward the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
Motorists driving by on the interstate had no idea they were passing celebrities – members of the eighth installment of the CBS reality series “The Amazing Race.”
Also, to be aired the week after this one, is a segment on “The Early Show.” One of the anchors attended Pilot/Copilot Aviation Challenge, and a news crew was on hand to cover it.
From the article:
“All those memories came crashing back to me” during a day at U.S. Space Camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Saturday said Syler, who was in town to attend the Parent/Child Aviation Challenge with her son, Cole Parham, 7.
The two were having a regular Space Camp experience, except for the video crew and television producer following them. The footage will be used for a program on Syler’s trip to Space Camp to be broadcast the week of July 25.
Syler’s co-anchors, Harry Smith, Hannah Storm and Julie Chen, and weatherman Dave Price will each attend a summer camp for a series called “The Early Show Goes to Camp.”
This is certainly great exposure for Space Camp, Aviation Challenge, and the USSRC!
The band, not the camp!
I’ve been wondering about this one for a while, myself. It seems Space Camp (the camp, not the band) finally got around to saying something about it!
From the band’s website:
This is the home page of the band formerly known as Space Camp. Sadly, the band is being forced to change its’ [sic] name by Space Camp in Alabama, (you know, where the kids go to be astronauts…). This week, the band recieved [sic] a letter demanding we make this change. Since we are good natured most of the time and don’t want to rattle the cages of the United States Space Camp, we will be renaming the group. What’s really in a name anyway? All of our current tour dates remain current, but will not be played under the handle “Space Camp.”
So there you have it.
