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The Commission approved an education grant for Ada City\nSchool District for the program held August 10, 2019 \u2013 June 30, 2020. “The\nSky is Not the Limit” is an aerospace education program designed by Ada\nCity School District to build necessary skills in science, technology,\nengineering and math and to ensure that students are aware that those skills can\nlead to high demand careers in the field of aviation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ada City School District was one of 29 schools in the\nnation selected to field test an aviation curriculum developed by Aircraft\nOwners and Pilots Association (AOPA). This new curriculum has been designed to\nprovide aviation career pathways of course work which will help students build\ncareer\u00e2\u0080\u0090ready skills while learning about opportunities in aviation and\naerospace. The AOPA\u2019s curriculum has two pathways teachers can teach, Pilot and\nUAS. The curriculum is designed for 9th grade level through 12th and will allow\nstudents to be prepared to take their Private Pilot Written Exam or their Part\n107 UAS Certification. Ada will be the only school in Oklahoma teaching the\n11th grade curriculum starting next week. The students within the Ada City\nSchool District will be able to participate in hands-on activities and flight\nsimulation at their aviation flight lab. Administration in Ada has successfully\nbacked AOPA\u2019s aviation curriculum all the way down to their PreK students;\nSuccessfully creating an aviation career pathway plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is estimated that 2,650 students will participate. The\nrequested amount was $35,044 and the approved amount was $23,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grants are for targeted learning programs that have a direct\napplication to aerospace and aviation for primary through post-secondary\neducation. The grant funds are part of the agency\u2019s initiative to give more\nOklahoma young people access to STEM careers in the aerospace and aviation\nindustry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aerospace and aviation grant program, which has been\nawarding aviation education grants for over 30 years. Charged with the mission\nby state statute, the Commission fosters and encourages students to consider\naerospace or aviation as a career. The Commission\u2019s grant program has years of\npositive results. The initiative supports the Oklahoma Works project that aims\nto address the skills gap and connect students to programs that will help build\nthe workforce of Oklahoma\u2019s second largest industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Director of Aeronautics Victor Bird said aerospace supports\n240,000 jobs with an average salary of $73,300 annually; \u201cAfter a two-year\nstudy concluded in 2017, we learned that the Aviation and Aerospace sector in\nOklahoma supports $43.7 billion in annual statewide economic activity. A competent\nworkforce, which includes our desperate need for aerospace engineers, will be\nneeded to sustain this industry\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The nationally recognized program enjoys a positive\nreputation as one of the most robust aviation education programs among state\naviation agencies. Since FY2001, it has\nawarded over $2.8M in aerospace and aviation education grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOAC is proud to assist Ada City School District in their\nthird year as a grant recipient of our aviation education grant program, and\nthey have been a model school for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association\n(AOPA) aviation course curriculum,\u201d said Adam Fox, Aviation Program Manager and\nAviation Education Coordinator for the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thirty-nine organizations were awarded Aerospace and Aviation Education Program grants or contracts totaling over $299,235 from the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission (OAC). The record amount of funds will be used to bring more school-aged children in Oklahoma to STEM careers, particularly those in aerospace and aviation. The funding was approved by the Commission at their most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-oklahoma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","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=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13488,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}