2015 Aviation Summer Camp?

A member of our soaring club (Soaring Club of Houston) asked the question below. Her son William is a 9th grader and soloed at our club in 2014. Very sharp and motivated kid. Appreciate any leads or suggestions, recognizing that this is slightly off-topic as it's not limited to soaring.
- Frank, SCOH (V1)

"Can anyone recommend an aviation summer camp (does not have to be in Texas) or summer experience for William? There are so many out there, but many are very basic. He's learned so much with SCOH and so much on his own that I don't want him to be bored. He has such a strong interest in aviation, especially helicopters, that I'm hoping to find something to further educate and motivate him. Any thoughts/ideas would be awesome!"

A couple of years ago one of our tow pilots hosted his nephew for the
summer to work as a line boy at Moriarty. He arrived an overweight,
clumsy kid with no direction and left trim, motivated, and, iirc, a
licensed glider pilot. Maybe something like that would be of interest.
If so, contact Rick at Sundance Aviation: http://www.soarsundance.com/


On 1/7/2015 4:51 PM, V1 wrote:
A member of our soaring club (Soaring Club of Houston) asked the question below. Her son William is a 9th grader and soloed at our club in 2014. Very sharp and motivated kid. Appreciate any leads or suggestions, recognizing that this is slightly off-topic as it's not limited to soaring.
- Frank, SCOH (V1)

"Can anyone recommend an aviation summer camp (does not have to be in Texas) or summer experience for William? There are so many out there, but many are very basic. He's learned so much with SCOH and so much on his own that I don't want him to be bored. He has such a strong interest in aviation, especially helicopters, that I'm hoping to find something to further educate and motivate him. Any thoughts/ideas would be awesome!"

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Dan Marotta

On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 6:51:10 PM UTC-5, V1 wrote:
A member of our soaring club (Soaring Club of Houston) asked the question below. Her son William is a 9th grader and soloed at our club in 2014. Very sharp and motivated kid. Appreciate any leads or suggestions, recognizing that this is slightly off-topic as it's not limited to soaring.
- Frank, SCOH (V1)

"Can anyone recommend an aviation summer camp (does not have to be in Texas) or summer experience for William? There are so many out there, but many are very basic. He's learned so much with SCOH and so much on his own that I don't want him to be bored. He has such a strong interest in aviation, especially helicopters, that I'm hoping to find something to further educate and motivate him. Any thoughts/ideas would be awesome!"


Caesar Creek Soaring Club in Waynesville, Ohio has been doing a Youth Soaring Camp lasting about 5 or 6 days usually about 2nd week in July for many years...Usually about 20 kids camp there for a week. It gets rave reviews from parents and Kids alike....

Contact info on this web page

http://soar-ccsc.com/?page_id=1509

On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 8:33:00 AM UTC-8, discus277 wrote:
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 6:51:10 PM UTC-5, V1 wrote:
Caesar Creek Soaring Club in Waynesville, Ohio has been doing a Youth Soaring Camp lasting about 5 or 6 days usually about 2nd week in July for many years...Usually about 20 kids camp there for a week. It gets rave reviews from parents and Kids alike....

Contact info on this web page

http://soar-ccsc.com/?page_id=1509

Great video. Brought back a lot of nice memories. I towed and instructed at SSD/CCSC during my last couple of college years and Grad school in the middle 70s. Makes me almost want to move back to that area.

On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 3:51:10 PM UTC-8, V1 wrote:
A member of our soaring club (Soaring Club of Houston) asked the question below. Her son William is a 9th grader and soloed at our club in 2014. Very sharp and motivated kid. Appreciate any leads or suggestions, recognizing that this is slightly off-topic as it's not limited to soaring.
- Frank, SCOH (V1)

If he's interested in the design and construction of gliders, he could come out for a summer Akaflieg at our shop.

Thanks, Bob K.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/HP-24...t/200931354951

On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 6:51:10 PM UTC-5, V1 wrote:
A member of our soaring club (Soaring Club of Houston) asked the question below. Her son William is a 9th grader and soloed at our club in 2014. Very sharp and motivated kid. Appreciate any leads or suggestions, recognizing that this is slightly off-topic as it's not limited to soaring.
- Frank, SCOH (V1)

"Can anyone recommend an aviation summer camp (does not have to be in Texas) or summer experience for William? There are so many out there, but many are very basic. He's learned so much with SCOH and so much on his own that I don't want him to be bored. He has such a strong interest in aviation, especially helicopters, that I'm hoping to find something to further educate and motivate him. Any thoughts/ideas would be awesome!"

Let me add.....here is an excellent 6 minute video of the Caesar Creek Youth Camp....really done well

http://vimeo.com/105810456

Wow! what a fantastic video. I need to show that to anyone interested in soaring.

SoaringXCellence wrote:
Wow! what a fantastic video. I need to show that to anyone interested in soaring.

The real question is now that nephi is full is there another adult summer
camp I could go to???

Pete

The Moriarty OLC camp which will be held June 1 to 15. The flying in this part of New Mexico is at least as good as Nephi and the facilities are a whole lot better. There are five (count them, as in 5) powerful towplanes based at Moriarty, each of them well able to launch in comfort any fully-ballasted glider. No creeping over the fences with sphincter fully gripped! Real, long, paved crosswind runway.
On-line registration is now open on the SSA.org website. Organization set to help pilots of all abilities, from badges to records.



On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 4:51:10 PM UTC-7, V1 wrote:
A member of our soaring club (Soaring Club of Houston) asked the question below. Her son William is a 9th grader and soloed at our club in 2014. Very sharp and motivated kid. Appreciate any leads or suggestions, recognizing that this is slightly off-topic as it's not limited to soaring.
- Frank, SCOH (V1)

"Can anyone recommend an aviation summer camp (does not have to be in Texas) or summer experience for William? There are so many out there, but many are very basic. He's learned so much with SCOH and so much on his own that I don't want him to be bored. He has such a strong interest in aviation, especially helicopters, that I'm hoping to find something to further educate and motivate him. Any thoughts/ideas would be awesome!"

....and no crazy Utah liquor laws - a brewpub almost within walking distance!

Mike