Overnight Exploration Camps for Boy and Girl Scouts
Spend an exciting night with friends as you join in the fun of themed individual and group activities. Afterhours museum experience, nighttime snack under the stars, camping under the SR-71 Blackbird in the amazing glass museum atrium and breakfast with the sun are just some of the fun for all our campers.
The Strategic Air & Space Museum Scouting program is designed for youth ages 6-18. The Museum requires a minimum of 75 youth (combined from all groups) and has a limit of 150 youth for an overnight. A 5-to-1 youth to adult ratio is required. The museum will help to fulfill the minimum by combining your group with other groups interested in the same date/camp theme. The Strategic Air & Space Museum reserves the right to cancel any overnight that doesn’t meet the minimum. All of our programs are safe, supervised, and highly educational. Click here for a list of overnight rules while staying at the museum.
Overnight programs start at 7:00 p.m.; Museum doors open at 6:30 p.m. for check-in. We provide snack at night and breakfast in the morning. The overnight concludes at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.
For more information, or to schedule an overnight for your troop call 402.944.3100 ext. 209. Please have group information and a preferred attendance date.
Cub Scout Nights
- $25 per child
- $15 per adult
- Activities: Paper airplane competitions, hands-on aviation activities, and teambuilding experiences
Boy Scout Merit Badge Nights
- $32 per child
- $15 per adult
Astronomy Merit Badge
- Learn about the night sky, stars, and planets!
- Find out about different kinds of telescope viewing
- Experience the Strategic Air & Space Museum planetarium
Astonomy Merit Badge Preparation
Aviation Merit Badge
- After hours tour of the museum
- Construct FPG-9 gliders
- Perform a pre-flight check
Aviation Merit Badge Overnight Preparation
Space Exploration Merit Badge
- Design a space station
- Construct an Estes Rocket
- Get up-to-date information about NASA today
Space Exploration Merit Badge Overnight Preparation
Robotics Merit Badge
- Learn about different types of robotics
- Construct a robotic hand
- Work as a team to complete a robotic mission
Robotics Merit Badge Overnight Preparation
Engineering Merit Badge
- Construct a model of motion
- Use different materials to demonstrate strength
- Engineering design challenges
Girl Scout Overnights
- $32 per child
- $15 per adult
Robotics: Oct. 5, 2012, Mar. 29, 2013
- Find out about the many different kinds of robots
- Create a “scribble bot”
Mad Scientist: Dec. 28, 2012
- Make “squishy circuits”
- Stir up your very own “Flubber”
- Accept the challenge of our Squishy/Slimy/Smelly Science Experiment
Geocaching: Apr. 27, 2013 (All day Saturday from 8:30 am -4:30 pm)
- Learn about Global Positioning System
- Use a GPS to find geocaches
- Make virtual drawings on the Earth (view-able in Google Earth)
- Play GPS games and create a geo-hunt for others to follow
Astronomy: May 17, 2013
- Enjoy solar and night telescope viewing
- Experience the SASM Planetarium
- Take on a lunar phases activity
- Make and use a Planisphere