Camp Schedule
Week 1
Explore Camp: June 7-11; Rising 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
Spark Camp: June 7-11; Rising 1st and 2nd grades
Week 2
Explore Camp: June 14-18; Rising 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
Spark Camp: June 14-18; Rising 1st and 2nd grades
Week 3
Explore Camp: June 21-25; Rising 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
Spark Camp: June 21-25; Rising 1st and 2nd grades
Week 4
Explore Camp: June 28-July 2; Rising 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
Spark Camp: June 28-July 2; Rising 1st and 2nd grades
Week 5
Explore Camp: July 12-16; Rising 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
Spark Camp: July 12-16; Rising 1st and 2nd grades
Week 6
Explore Camp: July 19-23; Rising 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
Spark Camp: July 19-23; Rising 1st and 2nd grades
To register for onsite visits and summer camps, call 423-425-2191, email Jamey-Kraus@utc.edu or visit the Challenger Center website.
The Challenger STEM Learning Center is reopening for both onsite visits and STEM Summer Camps.
At 11 a.m. on Friday, March 26, country singer Lee Greenwood will attend an event to officially announce the reopening. He attended the grand opening of the center in 1995.
June Scobee Rodgers, widow of Dick Scobee, commander of the crew of the Challenger Space Shuttle mission that ended in tragedy in January 1986, also will be attending.
In RELAUNCH 2021, community groups—students from county schools and homeschool, church groups, among others—will be able to visit the Challenger Center over the next 60 days. A maximum of 50 visitors is allowed in each group.
Reservations also are being taken for school groups that want to plan field trips for the 2021-22 school year.
For STEM Summer Camps, only seven students per camp will be enrolled, down from the pre-COVID 10. The number of students per camp may increase to 10 if COVID protocols change to allow larger groups. To register, go to: https://new.utc.edu/health-education-and-professional-studies/challenger-stem-learning-center/summer-academies
For on-campus visits and the summer camps, the same CDC guidelines that cover the rest of campus will apply to the Challenger Center, including masks and social distancing.
RELAUNCH comes a little more than a year after the Challenger Center celebrated its 25th anniversary. During the celebration, it was noted that over 220,000 students, teachers and adults had been served in its innovated simulate Space Mission and STEM labs.
A few days later, COVID-19 shut down the center until now.
Dr. June Scobee Rodgers, at “Relaunch 2021”, shows a photo taken with her granddaughter at the Grand Opening of the Challenger Center in 1995
Dr. June Scobee Rodgers, Mr. Lee Greenwood, and Family at the Challenger Center’s “Relaunch 2021” held on March 26, 2021
