National Space Camp Week
National Space Camp Week (NSCW) was held annually, 2004 – 2008, at Space Camp Turkey and
organized by Global Friendship Through Space Education (GFTSE) and the Turkish
Ministry of Education. Space
Camp
Turkey provided 445 scholarships to students and hosted 224
teachers from 77 provinces in Turkey.
The purpose of National Space
Camp Week was to bring successful Turkish students and
teachers together from different regions of Turkey to:
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Motivate them to pursue further studies in the fields of science and technology.
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Give many of the students an opportunity to visit a part of their country they
have never seen and to meet young people their own age from all regions of
Turkey.
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Benefit from the Space Camp Turkey program that combines learning, fun, and
friendship.
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Motivate younger students to improve their academic skills so that they might be
selected in coming years.
According to one American counselor at Space Camp Turkey,
“some of those students had never left their city, never seen the sea; others
had never met a foreigner.”
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