EDUCATION
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Programs for: Grades PK-12, Adult Education
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Description: Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park provides free, fun-filled curriculum-based programs throughout the year on-site or at your location. Students investigate the early careers of the Wright brothers by exploring the only original bicycle shop, print shop and flying field.
Website: www.nps.gov/daav OR www.visitNAHA.org/daytonaviation.html
Email: Karen Rosga at Karen_rosga@nps.gov
Telephone: (937) 225-7705 x 222
Address: 16 South Williams Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402
Sinclair Community College
Programs for: Ages 15+
Location: downtown Dayton, Ohio (Flight School located at Dayton Wright Brothers Airport in Miamisburg, Ohio)
Description: The Sinclair Community College Aviation Program offers two-year associate degrees and FAA certifications in a number of aviation career fields. The FAA certifications may be pursued with or without enrollment in the degree programs. The certifications are all those required to become professional pilots, aviation maintenance technicians (mechanics), and aircraft dispatchers. Associate Degrees are offered in Aviation Technology, Aviation Technology-Professional Pilot and Airway Science Option, and Aviation Technology-Maintenance Option. In addition academic certificate programs are offered in the following: Flight Attendants and Aircraft Dispatchers.
Website: www.sinclair.edu/academics/sme/departments/avt/
Email: Kent Wingate at kent.wingate@sinclair.edu
Telephone: (937) 512-4134
Address: 444 W Third Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402
Air Force Association & Wright Memorial Chapter #212
Programs for: Teachers and Home-School parents
Location: Greater Dayton region
Description: AFA’s Aerospace Education program provides public awareness programs, education and financial assistant to further America’s aerospace excellence. Through scholarships, grants, awards and public awareness, AFA provides the tools needed to education the public and our youth on the importance of STEM education. Check the website regularly to find different opportunities for teachers and for your students/children. You will find educator grants, matching grants and scholarships offered at different times of the year. Also, educator workshops are offered three times per year with CFUs offered at no cost through Wright State University.
Website: www.afadaytonwright.com
Email: Sharon Murner, VP for Aerospace Education at smurner@woh.rr.com
Telephone: (937) 836-5248
Address: 5134 Crescent Ridge Court, Clayton, Ohio 45315
AVETEC
Programs for: Grades 5-20
Location: Springfield, Ohio
Description: To help America keep pace with drastic changes in the global technology economy, AVETEC works to build a world-class computer modeling and simulation capability and to initiate educational partnerships to prepare a skilled future STEM workforce. Educational advances must keep pace with science, engineering and computing to have highly skilled professionals ready and able to do this work. AVETEC’s educational and workforce development programs help school districts and teachers prepare students for 21st century careers.
Website: www.avetec.org
Email: Cathy Balas at cbalas@avetec.org
Telephone: (937) 322-5000 x2006
Address: 4170 Allium Court, Springfield, Ohio 45505
Project SOAR in Math and Science
Programs for: Ohio middle school math and science teachers
Location: National Museum of the USAF
Description: Project SOAR includes a one-week summer workshop and fall Saturday seminar. Teachers complete a variety of activities that can be used with middle school students to learn and reinforce math and science standards. Topics include kites, hot air balloons, history of flight, model airplanes, and flight simulation. Teachers receive lesson plans, materials, and resources to implement lessons in their classrooms. They also learn how to integrate curriculum in many content areas.
Website: www.nationalmuseum.af.mil
Email: Judith A. When, NMUSAF/MUT at Judith.wehn@wpafb.af.mil
Telephone: (937) 255-3128
Address: 1100 Spaatz Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433
National Museum of the United States Air Force
Programs for: Grades 4-12, Families and Youth Groups
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio
Description: The National Museum of the USAF is the service’s national institution for preserving and presenting the Air Force story. Each year, more than one million visitors come to the museum to learn about the mission, history and evolving capabilities of America’s Air Force. As the world’s largest and oldest military aviation museum, it features more than 400 aircraft, missiles and aerospace vehicles amid more than 17 acres of indoor exhibit space. Thousands of personal artifacts, photographs, and documents further highlight the people and events that comprise the Air Force storyline, from the beginnings of military flight to today’s war on terrorism.
Through its education division, the museum reaches more than 150,000 students, teachers and family members each year with multi-disciplinary hands-on learning activities, workshops, tours and curriculum materials. In doing so, the museum helps inspire tomorrow’s airmen and cultivates future airpower advocates.
Website: www.nationalmuseum.af.mil
Email: Judith A. When, NMUSAF/MUT at Judith.wehn@wpafb.af.mil
Telephone: (937) 255-3128
Address: 1100 Spaatz Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433
Grimes Flying Lab Foundation
Programs for: Everyone
Location: Urbana, Ohio
Description: To preserve and fly the Grimes Flying Lab, a highly modified Beech C45H used by Grimes Manufacturing to develop and test aviation lighting products. To education the public on the many contributions made to aviation technology by Grimes. To collect and display historical items from Grimes, including sample products, photographs and other related artifacts.
Website: www.grimesflyinglab.org
Email: Frank Drain at frank.drain@ohp.k12.oh.us
Telephone: (937) 471-0845
Address: 1636 N Main Street, Urbana, Ohio 43078
Dayton Challenger Learning Center
Programs for: K—12
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Description: The Challenger Center is a STEM educational program that serves not only Dayton and surrounding suburbs, but schools and groups throughout Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. Visitors become engineers, scientists, astronauts and mission specialists in order to complete an exciting simulated mission to the Moon, Mars, a comet or the International Space Station. All Challenger programs impart content information and process skill through experiential learning. Curriculum materials and mission content are closely aligned with NCTM, NSTA and Ohio Content Standards in all academic subject areas.
Website: http://www.challenger.org/clc/lc_profile.cfm?lc_id=52
Email: Marijane Recob at mrecob@dps.k12.oh.us
Telephone: (937) 542-6143
Address: 1401 Leo Street, Dayton, Ohio 45404
Wright B Flyer Museum
Programs for: All ages
Location: Miamisburg, Ohio
Description: The Wright B Flyer promotes, through exhibition of the Wright B Flyer aircraft, educational outreach of the Dayton, Ohio region, where the Wright brothers lived, invented the airplane and gave birth to modern aviation.
Email: Sam Strother at wbflyer@dayton.net
Telephone: (937) 885-2327
Address: 10550 Springboro Pike, Dayton, OH 45342
Special Collections and Archives, Wright State University Libraries
Programs for: Educators and Students of all ages
Location: Paul Laurence Dunbar Library, Wright State University main campus
Description: The Special Collections and Archives mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to primary sources that document the history of aviation, aviation technology, the legacy of the Wright Brothers, local and regional history of the Miami Valley, and the history of Wright State University. The department encourages and promotes the use of these materials for teaching, learning and research.
Teachers are encouraged to bring their class to Special Collections and Archives for a first-hand look at documents, photos, films, and materials specifically tailored to the class they are teaching so that students can experience history from those who created it. The department will also come to the teacher?s classroom. We can provide presentations on a variety of subjects, to include informational handouts and samples of primary source material, that will help enhance the learning experience.
Email: Gino Pasi at archives@www.libraries.wright.edu
Telephone: (937) 775-3581
Address: 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, Dayton, OH 45435
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Dayton-Cincinnati Section
Programs for: Aerospace Professionals, Educators and Students
Location: Dayton-Cincinnati
Description: We are a local section of the National AIAA. Our mission is “To advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics, and to promote the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits.” To foster math and science education, the Section engages educators connecting them to the National organization’s programs and benefits and supports outreach activities to young people in local area grade schools and universities.
Website: https://info.aiaa.org/Regions/central/DayCin/
Email: Marc Polanka, 2010-2011 Chairperson
Carl Tilmann & Elana Slagle, Dayton-Cincinnati Pre-College Outreach at precollege@aiaa-daycin.org
WACO Learning Center
Programs for: All ages
Location: Troy, Ohio
Description: The WACO Learning Center offers aviation-related programs for all ages. The programs include summer camps, workshops, pre-school story hour, adult lecture series, and five station programs. The Learning Center is located at Historic WACO Field and Air Museum where events and activities can be held inside or outside. The children’s programs have fun, hands-on activities that inspire young people to learn about aviation.
Website: http://www.wacoairmuseum.org
Email: Lisa Hokky, Learning Center Director, LCDir@wacoairmuseum.org
Telephone: (937) 335-9226
Address: 1865 S. County Rd. 25A, Troy, OH 45373
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