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AEROSPACE EDUCATION
Aerospace Education
provides our membership and
the community with classroom
materials, teacher training
and other educational aids
which promote the
understanding of aviation
and space programs. Each
year, CAP supports workshops
for thousands of educators
at colleges and universities
across America. Educators
are taught how to
incorporate aerospace into
the education of America’s
youth. CAP develops,
publishes and distributes
aerospace teaching materials
for classroom grades K
through college. Over 20,000
of these teaching tools
which include activity
books, fact sheets,
textbooks, study and
instructor guides, and
aerospace activity materials
are distributed annually to
educators, most are free of
charge.
Each spring CAP
sponsors the National
Congress on Aviation and
Space Education (NCASE).
More than 1,000 teachers
attend seminars, assemblies
and workshops conducted by
national and international
aerospace experts, master
teachers, practicing
research test pilots and
astronauts.
Annually, CAP
provides aerospace education
instruction to more than
27,000 youth members and
offers aerospace education
opportunities to over 36,000
adult members. CAP through
expansive linked web page
resource serves
as an aerospace resource
center for educators, and
citizens.
Visitors are directed to
on-line aerospace activities
and other classroom teaching
tools.
A few years
ago, Civil Air Patrol
started the CAP Middle
School Initiative program (MSI),
through implementing Civil
Air Patrols Aerospace and
Cadet Programs in interested
middle schools it has
educated and inspired
students to stay off drugs
and focus on the their
future and the future of
technology in an aerospace
era. This program has
been such a success that it
is now being expanded
through High School as well.
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