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“What EAA has created with AeroEducate is a\nwide-ranging program where a child can reach specific goals in aviation that\nare achievable, affordable, and engaging,” said Jack J. Pelton, EAA CEO\nand Chairman of the Board. “This is the ‘Next Step’ for direct youth\naviation education that was pioneered by the EAA Young Eagles program in the\n1990s. AeroEducate will encourage participation from young people, their\nparents, teachers, and EAA chapters in a way that builds interest in aviation\nfrom initial fun to possible career paths.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the elements of AeroEducate are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Badging Program \u2013 designed to motivate\nengagement and continued discovery<\/li>
- Career Pathways \u2013 demystifies the journey,\nregardless of area of aviation interest<\/li>
- Classroom Activities \u2013 aviation-infused to help\neducators spark interest among youth<\/li>
- Database of Youth Aviation Activities \u2013 creating\nnationwide opportunities to participate<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
As part of AeroEducate, EAA is partnering with aviation\nindustry leaders to develop specific career pathways that include professional\npilot, air traffic controller, maintenance technician, engineering, and\naviation business. United Airlines’ Aviate program led the way in late 2020 by\nbecoming the first industry partner in AeroEducate. Aviate, established to\ninspire and develop the next generation of talented and diverse United pilots,\nwill effectively create a path from a Young Eagles flight to a profession as a\ncommercial pilot. Additional industry partners will be announced as their\nparticipation is finalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EAA is developing educational components with North\nCarolina State University, encompassing an aviation focus that can be used in\nboth traditional and non-traditional learning environments. That flexibility is\nespecially useful as online and distance learning has become more prevalent\nover the past year. The activities focus on STEM principles, and follow Common\nCore Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and technology and literacy\nstandards. In addition, the teaching activities that are being developed for\nEAA AeroEducate are available at no charge and are easily adaptable to existing\ncurricula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“AeroEducate aims to take that youthful discovery\nand fascination with flight into a positive direction that builds goals and fun\nfor young people, as well as resources for their parents, teachers, and local\nmentors,” said Rick Larsen, EAA’s vice president of communities and member\nprogramming. “This initiative uses the best of aviation, education, and\ntechnology in a way that reaches kids where they are and where they want to\ngo.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Development of AeroEducate programming will continue\nthrough the first half of 2021, with further updates and announcements also\ncoming at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021 in late July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AeroEducate, the newest youth aviation initiative from EAA, will bring an interactive, educational, and engaging experience to young people ages 5 to 18 beginning in 2021. AeroEducate’s web-based resource provides clear, age-appropriate pathways to aviation and aerospace engagement, and even career paths. A multitude of turnkey, easy-to-use aviation-themed activities for teachers and EAA chapters can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-front-page-slider"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4689.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519","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=17519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17522,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17519\/revisions\/17522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}