{"id":14156,"date":"2019-11-05T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14156"},"modified":"2019-11-05T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:44:33","slug":"women-take-flight-during-i-hart-flying-foundations-triple-scholarship-announcement-during-nbaa-bace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/women-take-flight-during-i-hart-flying-foundations-triple-scholarship-announcement-during-nbaa-bace\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Women Take Flight During I Hart Flying Foundation\u2019s Triple Scholarship Announcement During NBAA-BACE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With innovative technology, safety, sustainably, interactive\nexperiences as highlights of this year\u2019s NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas, one of the\nmore prominent focus areas centered on diversity and inclusion, and a future\nworkforce. We need both a talented and diverse future pipeline of aviation\nprofessionals to meet industry demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matching this excitement, energy and need, on Wednesday,\nOctober 23, the founder and president of California-based I Hart Flying\nFoundation, Rachelle Spector, announced winners from the organizations \u2018Ignite\nthe Magic for Flight\u2019 themed scholarship effort. \u201cWe initially planned to award\ntwo scholarships yet extended an additional $1,000 to a third recipient during\nour announcement at NBAA-BACE. Helping women thrive, learn, grow and stay\nmotivated is why we exist,\u201d shared Spector. \u201cWe are proud of the fall 2019\nrecipients, and continue stronger into 2020 with even more themed, engaging\nopportunities to assist women on their flight paths.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicole Lund<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A senior instrument-rated private pilot at the University of\nNebraska-Omaha, Nicole Lund received the $5,000 advanced flight rating\nscholarship, and was able to accept this award at the show. \u201cIt was my first\ntime attending NBAA-BACE and extremely special to find out, in person, I was\nreceiving this scholarship,\u201d expressed Lund. Lund\u2019s message to the candidates,\n\u201cPlease don\u2019t give up. Conquer your dream, and let\u2019s raise that six percent and\nget more women in this industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Allyson Trussell<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At only 19 years of age working toward her private pilot\nlicense, Allyson Trussell earned the $2,500 scholarship. \u201cI was jumping up and\ndown in pure joy when I got the call from Rachelle. I could not believe it and\nwas shocked!\u201d Trussell exclaimed. Trussell entered flight training through\nCalifornia Institute of Technology\u2019s Aero Association. She is not only a\nstudent pilot, she\u2019s a woman of STEM, studying geology and planetary sciences.\n\u201cWith this generous scholarship, I will start flying more often and keep\nworking towards inspiring other female pilots by being a positive role model,\u201d\nshe added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kristin Gibson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A surprising twist to Spector\u2019s announcement, she was so\ninspired by all the women\u2019s stories, and NBAA\u2019s efforts focused on diversity\nand inclusion, she decided to award a third scholarship at $1,000. The\nrecipient, Kristin Gibson, is a flight instructor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical\nUniversity\u2019s Prescott Campus. \u201cMy goal is to become a professional flight\ninstructor, and I\u2019ve faced many financial challenges along the way. With this\nscholarship support, I will be able to work on my multi-engine instructor rating,\u201d\nGibson explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Hart Flying Foundation advances into 2020 joined with\nseveral industry partners establishing more than $40,000 in flight training\nscholarships for women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With innovative technology, safety, sustainably, interactive experiences as highlights of this year\u2019s NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas, one of the more prominent focus areas centered on diversity and inclusion, and a future workforce. We need both a talented and diverse future pipeline of aviation professionals to meet industry demands. Matching this excitement, energy and need, on […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156","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=14156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14160,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14156\/revisions\/14160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}