UWS Hosts First Space Camp For Young Women

Camp Focused On Careers In Space And Aviation

The camp is geared towards showing young women various career opportunities in the fields of space and aviation. For many people space is a great unknown but for this group of high school girls the final frontier has come a little closer.

Madisen Smith, a high school student From Solon Springs Wisconsin comments,”It’s just a wonderful experience, especially if you just want to make friends and get to learn things.”

For two days these ladies learned all they could about careers in space and aviation. They even got a chance to show their skills by building their own rocket and launch pad.

As campers Julianna and Victoria explain, “This is where the bottle is supposed to go, then air pumps, whatever we’re using through there. It goes boom, boom, and the bottle goes pop.”

After making sure the launch pad was sturdy the girls got a chance to test their creations on the UWS campus.

Smith says, “It definitely gets people more into working together and will other people instead of trying to do everything by yourself.”

A spirit of experimentation and exploration is what the camps directors hope will stick with the girls for life.

Christine Thompson, of the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, says,”They’re seeing, they’re hands and their capabilities and it will be a beginning phase to I can do many things that i never thought I could do.”

Camp leader Cassandra Roemhildt adds, “So by exposing them to what they can do, even if they want to be in accounting or marketing. The industry needs women in all fields.”

Smith also adds, “I definitely got interested because i know that there’s not a lot of girls and women that are interested in that or that have an actual career and I think it’s important that we get girls interested in that.”