American Dynasty

48 Campers!  Time to bark out lots of orders and get off my tosh and fix it. It's Monday. What Are We Doing Here!? MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010 Hello Troops, It's Monday evening. So what am I doing at the Space Center at 9:35 P.M.? Why, running an Overnight Camp. Why else? The Space Center's working schedule is all Topsy Turvy in the summer time. Without school schedules to work around we can offer our camps throughout the week. This summer I organized the schedule so we could have one overnight camp and one EdVenture camp (3 day camp) per week with numerous private missions running whenever we aren't running camps. It keeps us busy, and busy is a good thing. Being busy means a steady flow of income and the summer season is where the Space Center makes most of its yearly operating budget. Remember, the Center doesn't receive a yearly budget (except for my salary) from the District. We must raise our operating budget ourselves. Tonight's camp start...

Bradyn Lystrup and Spencer Dauwalter at the Voyager Flight and 2FX Stations A Report on Day One of our 3 Day EdVenture Camp. First of the Summer Season. Another in our 10 Years Ago Series.  June 7, 2010 Hello Troops, It's 9:20 P.M. by the clock above the Odyssey's emergency exit. We are a couple hours into our first EdVenture Camp for the 2010 Summer season. I'm yawning. I'm tired. I've been plugging away since 9:00 A.M. and have several more miles to go before I sleep. I'll be here a total of 50 hours before I go home, and that's just the start of the week with this 3 day camp! I still have full days of private missions on Thursday, Friday and Saturday along with another Overnight Camp Thursday night. Oh yes, its summer and that means I'm hear around 90 hours per week. Day 1 of the 3 Day Overnight EdVenture Camp I'm paid for 40 hours and gladly donate the other 50 hours to the Center. It isn't proper to direct a non pr...