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\u201cIt is inspiring to see teams from all over the country put\nforth such great effort into the Aviation Design Challenge. We are particularly proud of the work put\nforth by the teams from Harkness Career and Technical Center and Raisbeck\nAviation High School and look forward to rewarding these teams with additional\nexceptional experiences which will continue to foster interest into all aspects\nof general aviation. Now in its tenth year, the challenge continues to expand\nand grow enthusiasm for our industry,\u201d said Pete Bunce, GAMA President and CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over 65 high school teams, representing 28 states, entered\nthe 2022 GAMA Aviation Design Challenge. During the first portion of the\nchallenge, teams used complementary \u201cFly to Learn\u201d curriculum to learn the\nprinciples of flight and airplane design, consistent with national STEM\nstandards. During the second portion of the competition, teams applied their\nknowledge to virtually modify an airplane design and compete in a fly-off using\nX-Plane software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year\u2019s mission was to modify a CubCrafters NX Cub with\na nosewheel to fly from Seattle, Washington, to Packwood, Washington, to\nefficiently deliver a maximum payload. The teams needed to design their\naircraft to maximize transportable payload and successfully land on a small\nrunway, surrounded by high terrain. Judges scored the teams based on\nperformance parameters, a checklist of steps involved in the demonstration\nflight and a video submission in which the team summarized what they learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Members of the first-place team from Harkness Career and\nTechnical Center include Matthew Brooder, Zach Cid, Tyler Doran, Joseph Illos,\nConnor LaPenna, Mark Maglietto, Ethan Mouyeos, Ryan Myers, Christian Pendola,\nTyler Robertson, Maverick Roth, Thomas Schumacher, Thomas Shine, Yulian\nSirakov, Jessica Thompson, Aidan Vogt and Bryce Zeltman. Their design included\nincreased wingspan and horsepower and added winglets and speed brakes. The\nteam\u2019s first-place prize includes a CubCrafters Manufacturing Experience, tours\nof Boeing and Signature Aviation facilities, demonstration flight opportunities\nand much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Harkness Career and Technical Center team was taught by\nTom Leach who had the following to say about the team:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cThe students did an outstanding job this year\nworking through the challenges of the GAMA Aviation Design Challenge. They used\nall the skills from the course along with the engineering design process to complete\nthe project. They worked in a model where the students take the wonderfully\ndetailed challenge with the CubCrafters model provided by GAMA and work\nsolutions with team effort in mind. They were originally organized into three\nsmaller divisions and near the end of the 6-week window put all the hard work\nfrom each division into the final class team design. Even two of the students:\nJessica Thompson mentioned \u2018I enjoyed the team structure of the project, and\nappreciated the real-world layout and experience,\u2019 additionally Joe Illos\nmentioned “this is one of the coolest competitions I’ve done!!\u2019. I am very\nproud of their accomplishments and driven effort for the challenge this year,\nthis class of students earned this accomplishment.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Members of the second-place team from Raisbeck Aviation High\nSchool include Emily Batig, Atticus Bhat, Garett Griner, Jason Poon, Blake\nUnger and Lyra Young. The team illustrated a well thought out design process,\nincreased aspect ratio and decreased wing area, and decreased horsepower. They\nwill receive a Redbird Flight Simulations STEM Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2022 Aviation Design Challenge sponsoring companies\ninclude Boeing, Bombardier, Camp Systems, Cirrus Aircraft, Click Bond,\nCubCrafters, Embraer, Garmin, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Hartzell\nPropeller, Jet Aviation, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Redbird Flight\nSimulations, Signature Aviation, Textron Aviation and Wipaire. Sponsors provide\nfinancial support for the prizes as well as in-kind donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To learn more about the organizations involved in structuring the competition, visit gama.aero<\/a>, flytolearn.com<\/a> and x-plane.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) announced that the team from Erie 1 BOCES Harkness Career and Technical Center in Cheektowaga, New York, is the winner of the 2022 GAMA Aviation Design Challenge. The team from Raisbeck Aviation High School in Tukwila, Washington was awarded second place. \u201cIt is inspiring to see teams from all […]<\/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":[98,52,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-new-york","category-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079","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=23079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23081,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23079\/revisions\/23081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}