{"id":19708,"date":"2021-10-12T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=19708"},"modified":"2021-10-12T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T13:38:09","slug":"flying-musicians-2022-scholarship-nominations-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/flying-musicians-2022-scholarship-nominations-open\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Flying Musicians 2022 Scholarship Nominations Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Flying Musicians Association (FMA) recognizes the\ncorrelation between hard work and skill required by both learning to fly and\nlearning music \u2014 practice, precision, working with others, multitasking, and\nultimately performance \u2014 and to that end, has opened the floor to nominations\nfor the eighth year to passionate student musicians for the 2022 FMA Solo\nprogram. The program has averaged two scholarships per year in the first seven\nyears while welcoming hundreds of student members into the FMA network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 FMA Solo Scholarship Program is open for\nnominations from music teachers and directors. This scholarship is unique,\nassisting an aspiring flight student from zero time to solo. FMA is excited to\nenter the eighth year of this scholarship program because of the impact it has\non the student, the community, aviation, and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying-farmers-last-year-winner-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19709\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying-farmers-last-year-winner-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying-farmers-last-year-winner-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/flying-farmers-last-year-winner.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><em> The Flying Musician Association scholarship award winner from 2021 was Shaylene Abrey-Webster. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingmusicians.org\/fma-solo-program\/\">Nominations<\/a> are being accepted now through January 31, 2022. Candidates must be a junior or senior high school music student with a passion for music and aviation. All nominees will receive a sponsored FMA student membership, including an FMA shirt and other items donated by FMA members and sponsors. Those who remain engaged in the FMA network are also aided in many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FMA President and CEO John Zapp said, \u201cFMA members love\nassisting others who share our passions of flying and music. To be able to\nassist and watch our student members grow through aviation and music while\ninspiring others is such a rewarding experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The program has assisted many students who remain engaged,&#8221; Zapp noted. &#8220;There are now many additional private pilots that have come from this program. We are also looking for those in the aviation and music industry who want to jump on the <a href=\"https:\/\/flyingmusicians.org\/support-fma\/\">FMA Bandwagon<\/a> to be a part of this opportunity to grow future musicians, pilots, and leaders \u201c\u2026the right way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I used to be in the band and also drum corps and I\nfeel it made me a more focused and better person. I feel it helped me become\nthe President and CEO of Sporty&#8217;s,&#8221; \u2014Michael Wolf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our sponsors are doing their part. Thank them. Join them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bose Aviation, Sporty\u2019s Pilot Shop, MYGOFLIGHT, Gleim\nAviation, Hartzell Propeller, ForeFlight. Honda Power Equipment, Sensenich\nPropeller, and the AeroShell Flight Team.&nbsp;\nFMA also acknowledges Trade-A-Plane, AviNation, AVweb, byDanJohnson,\nAOPA, EAA, 121five.com and many others for their extensive help in raising\nawareness for these and other FMA programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To sponsor a student pilot or hold a HangarJam or Concert,\neither at your event\/venue or as a standalone event, please contact FMA at <a href=\"mailto:Education@FlyingMusicians.org\">Education@FlyingMusicians.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flying Musicians Association (FMA) recognizes the correlation between hard work and skill required by both learning to fly and learning music \u2014 practice, precision, working with others, multitasking, and ultimately performance \u2014 and to that end, has opened the floor to nominations for the eighth year to passionate student musicians for the 2022 FMA [&hellip;]<\/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-19708","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\/19708","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=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19711,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions\/19711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}