Batista, Alvarez Selected for Space Camp

Sophomore Ashley Batista and Junior Donna Alvarez have both been accepted to Space Camp this summer! The two young scholars have earned $1500 scholarships to attend camp in Huntsville, Alabama this summer. Activities include training like an astronaut on the 1/6th Gravity Chair and the Multi-Axis Trainer, design, building and launching a team rocket, and safely recovering its payload, learn team-building skills on the high elements at the Space Camp Challenge Course, experience neutral buoyancy while SCUBA diving in the Underwater Astronaut Trainer, & fly jet aircraft simulators.

Batista and Alvarez join a long list of Hudson Catholic Students who have been invited to this camp. Last year Naomi Fernandez, Samantha Fernandez, and Zachary Fernandez earned the honor. The year prior, Xochilt and Jazmin Turijan were honored. Juan Tiera was honored three years ago.  “I want to thank Mr. Gazzale and Ms. Maderal for recommending me,” Batista said. “This is going to be great to help me with college because I’m thinking about doing Engineering as a major.”

For Alvarez, the goal is more than just space camp. Alvarez counts vice president Kamala Harris among her heroes, and Donna hopes to follow in her footsteps. “Women of color have achieved a seat in the white house,” she said. “ Now I am preparing to go even further.”