The Air Zoo Partners with STEM Flights To offer Free Flight Experiences For Local Students
The Air Zoo Partners with STEM Flights To offer Free Flight Experiences For Local Students
PRESS RELEASE – The Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Center has partnered with a fellow nonprofit to deliver free educational flight experiences for middle and high school students in the greater Kalamazoo area. The flights are administered by STEM Flights’ volunteer Pilot Mentors and are designed to ignite and inspire interest in aviation and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers, which coupled with art (STEAM) is an ongoing initiative of the Air Zoo.
Grand Rapids Business Journal
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The Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Center is partnering with a nonprofit to offer free educational flight experience to middle and high school students in the greater Kalamazoo area.
The flights will be administered by STEM Flights’ volunteer pilot mentors and are designed to ignite the interest of students in aviation and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers, as well as art, which has been an ongoing Air Zoo initiative.
The flights will utilize the cockpit of a small aircraft to highlight STEM concepts and learning while introducing youth to aviation-focused careers.
Wish I Had This When I Was Young; AirZoo Begins Flight Experience
Where I went to high school was about 30 minutes from O Hare International in Chicago. Several of my buddies dads were pilots for United Airlines. In fact, one of those buddies, Randy, wore a pilot s watch that was big enough to accidentally give his date, Linda, a black eye during the climactic scene in Jaws . But that s a story for another day.
My point it, I don t believe anybody else I went to high school with got any up close and personal experience with an airplane, except as a passenger. That s why what the Air Zoo in Portage is doing is so very cool for high school age kids and even younger ones.
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