AirVenture 2013 - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Brittany Miculka, Center to Advance the Pilot Community

OUR MISSION
MISSION

Promote the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Education and the boundless opportunities in aviation and aerospace industries worldwide. This international in-flight effort will cultivate and promote a greater awareness and interest in STEM in classrooms by way of an around-the-world flight of adventure taking off in the Fall of 2013.

OBJECTIVES

Circumnavigating the Earth bridging international classrooms across the globe through the use of virtual venues called Student Command Centers (SCC) for ages 4-16 years old.
Creating a greater awareness for the importance of international green technologies.
Empowering parents with their child's educational development through a greater awareness of STEM education as related to aviation and aerospace.

Increasing the number of children across the globe, interested in and inspired by aviation and aerospace, especially among under-represented groups such as girls and minorities as they follow the ThinkGlobal Team on their journey around the Earth.