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Want to be a rocket scientist? Or just know what they do? New Mexico Rocketeer AcademySM has something for the young astronaut in each of us, whether it’s week-long summer camps or education programs held here at the museum or in your class.
Space is a powerful way to enhance and amplify what you do in school. Youngsters of all ages are naturally drawn to space exploration. At the same time, anything we do in space is rooted in STEM-H (science, technology, engineering, math, and health) here on Earth, often in the simplest ways. For example, the butterflies you felt in your stomach as a kid on a swing are related to what happens to astronauts in space, and to International Space Station research that may improve automobile engines, which we can show in a falling tea candle.
Activities can touch on any of the sciences and New Mexico’s rich history in the space program, and encourage kids to pursue education and careers in STEM-H fields, and can help parents understand opportunities for their children.
Rocketeer Academy℠ programs support teachers in meeting goals and objectives established in the National Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Can’t come here? Rocketeer Academy℠ classes and camps launch to anywhere in the state and surrounding areas. No matter what your needs we can bring the excitement of space directly to your school or community. Avoid high transportation costs and let us come to you.
Classes can be customized to fit all grade levels or special needs.
Take a trip through the history of aviation and learn how airplanes fly with this fun audience participation show. We will cover everything from hot air balloons to drones and everything in between. Perfect for a classroom but great on stage for your entire school to participate.
Cost (per class): $175
Classes are tailored for groups of 30 students. Larger classes are split into groups of 30 and charged as multiple classes. Most classes last 1 hour.
In ancient times, the appearance of comets traversing the sky occasionally started wars. Join us for this fun, hands-on chance to create a comet or icy planet and see that a comet is really nothing more than a dirty snowball passing through our solar system.
Cost (per class): $125
Time: 1 hour
Start with a fantastic film, a Star Show of night sky mythology, and then an Eggstronauts class. After an after-dark museum tour you’ll sleep among the artifacts. Next morning we’ll toss your Eggstronauts from atop the Museum and see if they survive.
Cost: $50 per child,
$20 per chaperone,
10-person minimum.
Arrive at 5 p.m. and depart
following the eggstronaut
flight adventure.
Future explorers drill into a subglacial lake on another planet or moon to test the water and evidence of life emerges. Students will be given materials to create the planet’s creatures and then pass them to their peers who must determine just what makes up the aliens’ biology.
Can you create a capsule in which your egg-astronaut (“eggstronaut”) will survive touchdown on Earth? Book now for an eggcellent time. You’ll be eggstatic when your egg survives and eggsasperated if it doesn’t!
Bring the Museum summer camp experience to your community! Our remote camp programs provide the educators and materials; just add your kids and a venue and you’re ready to go. We have a wide range of full day, half day, and week-long camps.
These little Ozobots may be cute, but they’ll plow determinedly along the path that you create. Simple robotic programming will go a l-o-n-g way when you create a course to race your Ozobot against those of your fellow students.
Space is big. Find out exactly how big by building your own scale model of our solar system, from the Sun and the innermost planet Mercury all the way to distant Pluto.
Bring the Museum summer camp experience to your community! Our remote camp programs provide the educators and materials; just add your kids and a venue and you’re ready to go. We have a wide range of full-day, half-day, and week-long camps.
You have just crash landed on Mars. You and your crew are okay, but you are many miles from the safety of your base depot. Do you have what it takes to survive and get to safety before your air runs out? Find out and play, survive Mars!
Ozobots teaches robotics and teamwork. You’ll learn how to program your small Ozobot robot by assigning it tasks and designing an obstacle course. Then it’s a battle of the Ozobots as you compete against your peers.
Cost (per class): $75
Time: 1 hour
Newton’s Three Laws of Motion govern rocket travel. We’ll simulate his third law with an exciting rocket-fuel demonstration with liquid nitrogen, and then you’ll create an air-powered rocket with paper and scissors. How high will yours go?
Cost (per class): $125
Time: 1 hour
Reward your students with an adventure inside the halls of the New Mexico Museum of Space History. Our staff will lead you and your group through exciting presentations and projects. Get the opportunity to sleep next to amazing artifacts and be closer to history and space than ever before. Make your reservation today to jump on-board and be part of the voyage. Movie and museum, plus two of the following activities: The Awful Truth About Zero-G; Blast Off With Flying Tea Kettles (includes rocket class)*; Houston, the Peeps Have Landed; Alien Autopsy*; Sizing Up Your Solar System; Put a Spin on Weather. (*extra charge depending on activity.)
Requires 1 adult chaperone per 10 kids under 18 (gender appropriate; no charge for first chaperone/10 kids). Minimum age 7. Groups provide their own meals and sleeping gear. A museum staffer stays overnight with you. Other restrictions may apply. Requires contract and deposit
You’ve crashlanded on a planet. Your team will be given details on surface and atmospheric conditions, along with materials that might – or might not – help you to survive. Your choices could mean life … or death.
Cost per class: $75
Time: 1 hour
Some of the greatest 20th century engineers who built the first rockets to travel in space started out with homemade model rockets. You’ll build one yourself in this class. How high will yours go and will it touch down gently or plummet spectacularly from the pull of gravity? This is a build-and-launch class.
Cost per class: $150
plus cost per rocket: $25
Time: 2.5 hours
Museum tours, big screen movies, planetarium programs, live star talks and engaging classes are all available at affordable prices for school groups. Museum admission and movie or planetarium shows start at $5/student and $6/adult. Tour guides are available for an additional flat fee of $20/30 students.
Aerodynamics is the science of flight. Learn about flight and the different applications through our foam glider class, in which your students get to build and fly their own foam gliders. Book now and you can soar into a fun time.
Cost (per class): $100
Museum tours, big-screen movies, planetarium programs, live star talks and engaging classes are all available at affordable prices for school groups. Museum admission and movie or planetarium shows start at $5/student and $6/adult. Tour guides are available for an additional flat fee of $20/30 students.
Add a class and get a free tour guide!
In ancient times, the appearance of comets traversing the sky occasionally started wars. Join us for this fun, hands-on chance to create a comet or icy planet and see that a comet is really nothing more than a dirty snowball passing through our solar system.
Cost per class: $125
Time: 1 hour
Future explorers drill into a
subglacial lake on another planet or moon to test the water and evidence of life emerges. Students will be given materials to create the planet’s creatures and then pass them to their peers who must determine just what makes up the aliens’ biology.
Cost per class: $100
Time: 1 hour
Can you create a capsule in which your egg-astronaut (“eggstronaut”) will survive touchdown on Earth? Book now for an eggcellent time. You’ll be eggstatic when your egg survives and eggsasperated if it doesn’t!
Cost per class: $125
Time: 1.5 hours
You’ve crashlanded on a planet. Your team will be given details on surface and atmospheric conditions, along with materials that might – or might not – help you to survive. Your choices could mean life … or death.
Cost per class: $75
Time: 1 hour
Space is big. Find out exactly how big by building your own scale model of our solar system, from the Sun and the innermost planet Mercury all the way to distant Pluto.
Cost per class: $65
Time: 1 hour
Ozobots teaches robotics and
teamwork. You’ll learn how to program your small Ozobot robot by assigning it tasks and designing an obstacle course. Then it’s a battle of the Ozobots as you compete against your peers.
Cost per class: $75
Time: 1 hour
Some of the greatest 20th century engineers who built the first rockets to travel in space started out with homemade model rockets. You’ll build one yourself in this class. How high will yours go and will it touch down gently or plummet spectacularly from the pull of gravity? This is a build-and-launch class.
Cost per class: $150,
plus cost per rocket: $25
Time: 2.5 hours.
Newton’s Three Laws of Motion govern rocket travel. We’ll simulate his third law with an exciting rocket-fuel demonstration with liquid nitrogen, and then you’ll create an air-powered rocket with paper and scissors. How high will yours go?
Cost per class: $125
Time: 1 hour
Take a trip and never leave your school! Explore the heavens with our portable digital planetarium and see the night sky as we see it today or at any time in the past or future. Our experienced educators will bring the wonders of the universe right to your school. Each program is approximately 40 minutes long, classes are held in one hour blocks.
Grades K-12 $100 hour, 3 hour min
Voice: (575) 437-2840
Toll-Free: 1-877-333-6589
Fax: (575) 434-2245
Mail:
P.O. Box 5430
Alamogordo, NM 88311-5430
Delivery/Visiting:
3198 State Route 2001
Alamogordo, NM 88310