{"id":12649,"date":"2019-04-23T03:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2019-04-23T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:16:43","slug":"annual-ncase-aviation-education-awards-presented-at-ceremony-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/annual-ncase-aviation-education-awards-presented-at-ceremony-in-d-c\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Annual NCASE Aviation Education Awards Presented at Ceremony in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From left are James Brough, Shelia Bauer, Ralph Coppola, and Tony Fowler.\u00c2\u00a0Photo\u00c2\u00a0by\u00c2\u00a0Michael\u00c2\u00a0Schoen.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The presentation of the Dr. Mervin K. Strickler, Jr. Aerospace Education Leadership Award and the Crown Circle Aerospace Education Leadership Award for 2019 took place on April 11th<\/sup> at the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington D.C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The awards, which are administered by the National Coalition\nfor Aviation and Space Education (NCASE) are presented each year to recognize performance\nand outstanding leadership in aerospace education and in the case of the\nStrickler Award, to recognize individuals or organizations that share his\npersonal commitment and lifelong contributions to aerospace education on the\nnational level. \u201cNCASE Award Committee Co-Chairs, Shelia Bauer, James Brough\nand their entire committee worked tirelessly this year putting together the\nprogram and working to select this year\u2019s awardees,\u201d said Kim Stevens, NCASE\nVice President. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Joseph Kools, Director of Executive and Organizational Development for the Federal Aviation Administration, welcomed guests and honorees to the FAA and provided remarks on behalf of the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Joseph Kools, FAA Director of Executive and Organizational Development. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Bauer, FAA (Ret.) and former recipient of the Strickler Award along with Brough, National STEM Aviation and Space Education Program Manager for the FAA, were joined by NCASE Board members, President Rol Murrow, Lisa Bacon and Tony Fowler, to greet and welcome attendees and make the presentations. \u201cThese awards are so wonderful for honoring outstanding contributors to aerospace education on the national stage,\u201d said Murrow. \u201cIt is our hope that they provide our proper thanks as well as continuing inspiration not only for the recipients, but for all those who work so hard opening the doors to aviation and space education for the next generation of leaders and innovators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Strickler Award was presented to Real World Design\nChallenge (RWDC), Founder and Executive Director, Ralph Coppola. \u201cWhen I heard\nI was receiving the Strickler Award, I was honored to be nominated and selected,\u201d\nsaid Coppola. \u201cThere have been a select few people who have received this award\nover the years. All have represented excellence in aviation education and I am\nproud to join that august group.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sam and Marilyn Billings<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The 2019 recipient for the Crown Circle Aerospace Education\nLeadership Award was Youth Aeronautics Education Foundation (YAEF), Samuel and\nMarilyn Billings, Founders and Chief Executive Officers. “The Crown Circle\nAward will tremendously impact YAEF’s outreach initiative to expose youth to\naerospace and the numerous opportunities in aviation that previously have been\nunknown and\/or unattainable for the targeted population,\u201d said Sam Billings. \u201cYAEF\naccomplishments have been notable, but our blessing is not merely to\naccomplish, but to inspire accomplishment in others”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis\nis a great opportunity for us to recognize the great work that is being done\naround our country in support of aerospace STEM education,\u201d said Brough. \u201dWe\nare honored and grateful to be able to support NCASE and the recipients of\nthese awards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RWDC is\nan annual high school competition run by a public-private partnership with the\ngoal of sustainably increasing the STEM workforce, and designed to prepare\nstudents to be successful in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)\ncareers and to foster growth in the US and the world.  It is a high school design competition\nfocused on the area of aviation where students work in teams to solve a real\nworld problem using professional tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Real World Design Challenge is the result of two years\nof focused research on how best to close the STEM workforce skills gap. \u201cWe\nconsulted with a group of 80 business, governmental and education organizations\nthat have been focused on STEM education and workforce needs,\u201d said Coppola. \u201cWe\nfound that industry sought employees with excellent academic backgrounds with\nyears of \u2018real world\u2019 experience. The goal became to develop an engineering\nexperience for high schools students to prepare them for the STEM workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coppola said that experience teaches that the engineering\ndesign process is at the heart of engineering learning, thus design became a\ncentral component of the program.  \u201cIt\nalso became apparent that students couldn\u2019t rise to a level of competence\nwithout being challenged.  And the whole\nthrust of the endeavor of creating an environment had to be based in real world\nexperiences.   It was thus that the Real\nWorld Design Challenge was born.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YAEF, now in its 10th<\/sup> year of providing aerospace\neducational opportunities for youth, is primarily located in the Virginia\nPeninsula area – Williamsburg, West Bend, Newport News, Hampton Roads, Yorktown\nand Norfolk. The organization\u2019s mission is to conduct four levels of programs\nwith aeronautics focus for underserved, at-risk and other youth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The non-profit organization provides hands-on training for\nyouth to encourage them in STEM, leading them to explore aerospace and lifelong\nopportunities in aviation, preciously viewed as out of reach and unattainable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel and Marilyn Billings, YAEF founders, retired ten\nyears ago. They then undertook the ambitious plan to give back to the\ncommunity, with emphasis on underserved youth in and around Williamsburg,\nVirginia.   Their goal was to help ensure success by\nstimulating an interest in STEM disciplines. They came to realize that an\naviation education program would be an excellent fit to achieve that goal and\nwent on to establish Youth Aviation Educational Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Strickler promoted aerospace education for more than 50\nyears and is considered the \u201cFather of Aerospace Education.\u201d The Dr. Mervin K.\nStrickler Jr. Award was established in 1995 to recognize individuals or\norganizations that share his personal commitment and lifelong contributions to\naerospace education at the national level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Crown Circle Award was established in 1979, to recognize\nperformance and outstanding leadership in aerospace education at the local\nand\/or regional level.  Those seeking\nthis honor must demonstrate involvement in and commitment to aerospace\neducation at the local or regional level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The presentation of the Dr. Mervin K. Strickler, Jr. Aerospace Education Leadership Award and the Crown Circle Aerospace Education Leadership Award for 2019 took place on April 11th at the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington D.C. The awards, which are administered by the National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education (NCASE) are presented each year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN8990-PS.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12669,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions\/12669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}