May 2016 

Newsletter

Photo below courtesy of TARC
Featured Content

President's Column
Membership - Meeting of the Minds  

GAMA Build A Plane Winner Announced

 
2016 Renewed Memberships
AOPA
Aircraft Electronics Association
Blue Sky Educational Foundation
Dee Howard Foundation
Flight School Association
Ken Cook Company
Master Flight Foundation
NASAO
NAA
NATA
State Aviation Journal
University Aviation Association
Virginia Department of Aviation
Wolf Aviation Fund
 

Alabama
Auburn University Receives $5 Million in State Funding for New Aviation Education Facility
Auburn University will receive $5 million from the state’s 2017 fiscal year budget for the construction of a new Aviation Education Facility, following Gov. Robert Bentley’s recent signing of the bill. The planned 23,000-square-foot facility will replace an outdated structure built in 1950 that has limited space as well as maintenance issues. University officials soon will begin the design process and will present a proposal to the Board of Trustees later this year seeking construction bids. Construction could begin in early 2017.
Read more: Auburn Villager



Iowa Lakes Aviation Exploration Day Takes Off
Around 50 northwest Iowa high school students soared through the air last week while learning about aviation. Iowa Lakes Community College held its second annual Aviation Exploration Day at the Estherville Municipal Airport on Thursday, May 5. During the event, students learned about aviation careers, the science of flight and how science is used every day by pilots.
Read more:
Spencer Daily Reporter



New York
Deep Inside JFK Airport, There's A High School
New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is among the busiest in the country: More than 1,000 flights touch down and take off each day. More than 50 million passengers hurry through its gates each year. But something else is happening, too.
Read more: KNAU

Utah
Education Center Dedicated at Hill Museum
Ellie Reynolds said her husband was always talking about education, so it is appropriate that the new education center at the Hill Aerospace Museum be named for him. The Marc C. Reynolds Aerospace Center for Education opened Wednesday, April 27, with a large crowd of community leaders, museum and base officials, and Reynolds family members. The facility will host local youth for classes and training on subjects that support STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Read more: Davis Clipper



Arizona
Teens Receive Scholarships to Air Academy
Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 1044 has selected two local teenagers to receive fully-paid scholarships, including tuition and round-trip airfare, to the EAA Advanced Air Academy 2016 summer program.
Read more:
White Mountain Independent


Michigan
Sky Broncos Place Fifth in National Championship Event
Western Michigan University's famed precision flight team, the Sky Broncos, captured fifth place in the 2016 National Intercollegiate Flying Association championship held May 9-14 at Ohio State University.
Read more: WMU News
 
Illinois
Flying Salukis Finish Second at Championships
While the dream of a “three-peat” as National Intercollegiate Flying Association champions fell a few points short, the legacy of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Flying Salukis continues to grow.
The two-time defending national champions finished second at the 2016 national collegiate aviation championships Saturday at The Ohio State University.
Read more: SIU


State Aviation Journal

California
Hundreds of Kids Get Chance to Learn About Aviation (Video)
Hundreds of Sacramento-area students were at Mather Airport Sunday for a chance to see airplanes up close; many had never even been inside an airport before.
Read more: KCRA
 

NCASE Newsletter Editor and Communications Chair - Kim Stevens

kim@aviationeducation.org 

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National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education 

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From the President

Membership – Meeting of the Minds
 
    You will be hearing more from myself and membership chair, Tony Fowler, Director of Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education, during these summer months as we reach out personally thanking each of you for renewing your NCASE membership.  We will also be sharing our strengthened member benefits and gathering updated information for your organization. 
    Membership growth is an activity for each and every member.  After all, the health of an organization is in its members. Our membership goals this year is for multiplying through our demonstrating the value of NCASE while strengthening member benefits and aggressively promoting these benefits.  Let’s all rally around by providing our support for growing our membership this year.  Renew your membership, if you have not already, and then call a colleague sharing NCASE’s web site. 
    Promoting membership can take many forms, including media outreach, advertising, public relations, and campaigns.  Fostering membership is a human experience.  It’s a relationship between the one promoting and the potential member.  On the horizon are tools for you to promote and cultivate new NCASE member interest.  Tony and I look forward to speaking with you!
    An example of one of the many great NCASE membership benefits, called YouthWINGS, is provided by NCASE Director, John Teipen.  This program will be available in the NCASE website’s Members Only section.  Members will have access to view and create LIVE video broadcasts, to use or develop interactive STEAM student video courses where a student earns a certificate of completion, and much more.  John teamed together with Jim Brough, FAA National STEM-AVSED Program Manager for a sample of what the member will experience.  View the Aviation Maintenance video and take the quiz earning your certificate of completion at http://livestream.com/YouthWINGS/events/4770104
    Another outstanding member benefit will be at National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) held in Los Angles, California on March 30 – April 2, 2017.  NCASE members will be invited to join the Aviation & Aerospace exhibit hall.  NSTA has more than 55,000 members with 9,000 to 12,000 attending the national conference each year.  We are also in discussion with NSTA for an Aviation & Aerospace Track during their national conference bringing greater visibility for all you do.  Email captjudy@captainjudy.com if you are interested in sharing your organization at this conference.  http://www.nsta.org/conferences/national.aspx
    Do you know of an outstanding organization or individual who has illustrated noteworthy achievement and contributions to aviation or space education, or perhaps an accomplished educator who deserves to be inducted into the Crown Circle?  We invite you to nominate one or more of these special candidates for NCASE’s Dr. Mervin K. Strickler Jr. Aerospace Education Leadership Award, or the Crown Circle Award.  (Photo  above - Trip Barber, left and David Melcher were given Strickler Awards in 2016). Nomination forms with essential information are now available in our file library at:  http://www.aviationeducation.org/home/ncase-news/2-nominate-a-great-candidate-for-a-national-aviation-and-space-education-award
    Our quarterly meetings continue to be conducted by teleconference to minimize travel and costs for member representatives.  Your executive committee also conducts monthly meetings and welcomes the participation of all members.  Watch for emails with dates, times, and dial-in information.

Best Wishes, 


Judy Rice
NCASE President
 

WINNER OF GAMA BUILD A PLANE 2016 AVIATION DESIGN CHALLENGE ANNOUNCED
    The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and Build A Plane announced today that Weyauwega-Fremont High School in Weyauwega, Wisconsin is the winner of the fourth GAMA/Build A Plane Aviation Design Challenge to promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge among U.S. high school students. As the prize, four students, one teacher, and one chaperone will travel to Glasair Aviation in Arlington, Washington, to build a Glasair Sportsman from June 20-July 1, 2016. (Photo above - GAMA CEO, Pete Bunce and previous year winners at EAA AirVenture).
    The competition included 76 high schools from across the U.S., who used Fly to Learn curriculum to learn the basics of aerospace engineering and then applied that knowledge by modifying a virtual airplane with software powered by X-Plane. The software scored the aircraft based on the payload, the length of the flight, and the amount of fuel burned. In addition, judges from GAMA’s engineering team evaluated a summary of modifications each team made to the virtual Cessna 172SP, a checklist of steps involved in the demonstration flight, and three videos submitted throughout the competition, culminating in the students sharing what they learned.
    “Once again, we are extremely fortunate to spend two weeks this summer with an outstanding group of students whose passion for aviation, STEM, and learning has won them this nationwide competition,” GAMA President and CEO Pete Bunce said. “They are about to have the experience of a lifetime at Glasair Aviation as they build a Sportsman under the tutelage of Glasair’s exceptionally skilled staff, and learn firsthand about the many career options that exist in general aviation. We thank our generous sponsors for making this experience possible for them, and for providing the curriculum and software to all of the schools that participated in the Aviation Design Challenge this year.” (Photo above - NCASE Vice President, Rol Murrow, left and Lyn Freeman, Build A Plane founder. 
Read more: State Aviation Journal 

Education
Obama Wants to Hear What Kids Have to Say About Science Education
    Jacob Leggette said he believes it is important that children have a say in their science education. That’s why the 9-year-old budding engineer from Baltimore fearlessly approached President Obama at the White House Science Fair and asked: “Do you have a child science adviser?” Obama does not have a child science adviser, but in a speech at the fair last month, he indicated that he was taking Jacob’s idea to heart. “Jacob . . . had a very good idea,” Obama said, after lauding his project, a collection of items he built on a 3-D printer. “We should have a kid’s advisory group that starts explaining to us what’s interesting to them and what’s working, and could help us shape advances in STEM education.” Inspired by Jacob’s idea, the White House created a Web page to allow children to share their thoughts and views on science, technology, engineering and math education. The site is set to go live Thursday at WH.gov/KidScienceAdvisors.
Read more: Washington Post 

Missouri
Kansas City Not-For-Profit Acquires Former Flying Hospital Jumbo Jet 
    After being mothballed for 15 years in the Arizona desert, an aging Lockheed L-1011 with a unique history was acquired by a Kansas City not-for-profit organization.  The aircraft is being readied for a ferry flight in coming weeks from Tucson to Kansas City, where the old jet will take on a new role. “We are taking aging airliners that would otherwise be cut up for scrap and re-purposing those to use for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education,” said Kerry Floyd, president and co-founder of the not-for-profit, which does business as TriStar Experience.
Read more: Kansas City Star  (VIDEO)
 
Washington
‘Down is Finite, Up is Infinite,’ Puget Sound Kids Soar in Rocketry
     All the worry over lagging education in science, math and technology might lead anyone to think students run from those fields. But consider rocket-building. In Bellevue, the rocketry club at Odle Middle School is in such high demand that teacher Brendan Williams holds a lottery to choose students. Last weekend, one of his teams (code name: Space Potatoes) was the top-scorers among 789 student groups competing in the Team America Rocketry Challenge in Washington, D.C.
Read more: Seattle Times
 
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