

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Secrets of a Spy Station - STEM Summer Camp
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 19 Jul, 2026 at 03:00 pm – Fri, 24 Jul, 2026 at 11:00 am (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Campers will explore the origins of codes and ciphers and how they have evolved from written messages to complex digital encryption methods in use today.  They will learn how to recreate these techniques themselves and crack the messages sent by their fellow cryptographers, all while reinforcing skills in math, language, and pattern recognition. 

What better setting than PARI, which once operated as a spy station for the Department of Defense during the Cold War, where messages were being intercepted and deciphered?  Another element in the sending of secrets is how you transport them from place to place.  We’ll take a look at the technologies, both past and present, that allow information to zip out to distant satellites and back down to Earth.  How do we make sure our sensitive transmissions don’t end up in the wrong hands?

From messages based on playing with words and numbers, to hiding information in plain sight in images and everyday objects, you’d never suspect all the ways cryptography is used all around us.  Campers will leave with an understanding of the principles that drive the world and keep our data safe.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/balsam-grove/secrets-of-a-spy-station-stem-summer-camp/200029488994416
- **Event Categories**: kids, summer-camps
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.pari.edu/camps/summer-camps/secrets-of-a-spy-station/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=balsam+grove-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Balsam Grove
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, NC, United States, North Carolina 28772
- **lat**: 35.19962
- **long**: -82.8743
- **full address**: 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, NC, United States, North Carolina 28772, Balsam Grove, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (https://allevents.in/org/pisgah-astronomical-research-institute/11821110)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 19 Jul, 2026 at 03:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, NC, United States, North Carolina 28772, Balsam Grove, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** kids, summer-camps
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Secrets of a Spy Station - STEM Summer Camp ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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