{"id":25559,"date":"2023-05-12T02:21:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T02:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=25559"},"modified":"2023-05-12T02:21:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T02:21:34","slug":"two-u-s-students-place-in-international-aviation-art-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/aviation-education\/two-u-s-students-place-in-international-aviation-art-contest\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Two U.S. Students Place in International Aviation Art Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Artwork above &#8211;  Jihyeon (Elly) Han (age 13, KS) placed first in the intermediate category. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO)\ncongratulates Jihyeon (Elly) Han (age 13, KS) for placing first in the\nintermediate category and Yuhan Lam (age 9, NJ) for placing second in the\njunior category of the 2023 International Young Artist Contest. They are two of\nthe nine artists who placed nationally in the U.S. portion of the contest,\nwhich is coordinated annually by the NASAO Center for Aviation Research and\nEducation and sanctioned by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lam-USA-NJ-2023-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25561\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lam-USA-NJ-2023-edit.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lam-USA-NJ-2023-edit-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><em>Yuhan Lam (age 9, NJ) placed second in the junior category. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners of the 2023 International Young Artist Contest\nwere announced by its sponsor the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI).\nYoung artists from Lithuania, USA and Japan received the first prizes in the\nthree age categories of the 2023 contest. The participating countries in this\nyear\u2019s edition were China, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Japan, Latvia,\nLithuania, Poland, Thailand and USA. The goal of the contest is to inspire\nyouth to reflect on the importance of aviation and express their ideas through\nart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contest submissions are grouped into three separate age\ncategories for judging, allowing students ranging from 6-17 years old to\ncompete. The 2023 theme, \u201cAir Sports and the Environment\u201d encouraged participants\nto explore the ways that air sports can interact harmoniously with our\nenvironment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To qualify for the U.S. national contest, all artwork was\nfirst submitted into state-level competitions, with the winning entries\nforwarded to NASAO for national award consideration. This year, NASAO received\nover 150 pieces of art from 20 participating states. Congratulations to the\n2023 U.S. National and International winners!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View the 2023 international winning entries&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artwork above &#8211; Jihyeon (Elly) Han (age 13, KS) placed first in the intermediate category. The National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) congratulates Jihyeon (Elly) Han (age 13, KS) for placing first in the intermediate category and Yuhan Lam (age 9, NJ) for placing second in the junior category of the 2023 International Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,116,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-education","category-front-page-slider","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Han-KS-2023-edit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559","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=25559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25562,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25559\/revisions\/25562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}