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EAA's Scholarship Program encourages, recognizes and supports excellence among those studying the technologies and the skills of aviation. These annual scholarships help outstanding students, who demonstrate financial need, to accomplish their goals. Scholarship applicants must be involved in school and community activities, as well as aviation activities.

Established in 1929 by 99 women pilots to provide mutual support and advancement of aviation, The Ninety-Nines Organization of Women Pilots has continued and expanded that mission. Today, the organization promotes world fellowship through flight, provides networking and scholarship opportunities for women and aviation education in the community and preserves the unique history of women in aviation.

NASA and Univision Communications Inc. have launched an on-air and online initiative to help engage Hispanic students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education. View Spanish-language educational video segments featuring Hispanic employees from NASA and check out the online resources for educators. The website also includes information on educational opportunities for students.

The FAA Academy provides technical and managerial training and development for our workforce and the aviation community. Since courses have different admissions criteria, prospective participants are admitted on a course-by-course basis. Certain courses may not be open to the general public, but many courses are available to other government agencies, industry, and international civil aviation authorities.

Challenge Air builds self-esteem and confidence of children and youth with specials needs, through the experience of flight. Since 1993, Challenge Air has enriched the lives of children and youth with special needs through its unique aviation programs. Challenge Air's mission reflects the life-changing impact the flight experience has on children, families, donors, sponsors and communities as a whole."

aviation-related charities receive grants during 2010. All of those that were nominated are already doing "good" for aviation. We want to come along side to help build awareness and increase funding opportunities. And, we want to mobilize the pilot community to learn more about them and get involved.

NVAA - Engine failure experience in IMC. This is the communications recording between the pilot of a Lancair Legacy N913MP and a Seattle Center controller. The Lancair experienced engine failure while on a flight from Redmond, OR to Boise, ID. Icing, engine failure complicates things. This is how it should be done! Two people VERY composed during the whole emergency. Enjoy the excitement!

Moon Zoo - with your help, we hope to study the lunar surface in unprecedented detail. Thanks to the help of the Moon Zoo community we have already visually classified 1,599,082 images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

These interviews share what the community thought of the Wright Brothers. Includes a QuickTime movie clip from a silent movie reproduction of the first flight.

The Math 2.0 Interest Group is an international network of researchers, educators, families, community leaders and technology enablers. We are collaborating on a variety of research and development projects and conversation threads about social media as it relates to mathematics and mathematics education.

The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.

"Is math class too easy for you? Are you looking for a greater challenge? You've come to the right place! * Read Books specifically designed for high-performing math students. * Take Online Classes bringing together thousands of top students to work with outstanding instructors. * Join our thriving Online Community with students, parents, and teachers from around the world. * Learn with Alcumus, our free online learning system. * Play For the Win!, a real-time math competition modeled after the MATHCOUNTS Countdown Round. "

"Opening skies to women To celebrate Women of Aviation Worldwide Week, March 7 through 13, the aviation community will showcase its female members and welcome newcomers with first flights, contests, and more. "

"Art of Problem Solving is a larger community (closer to 50k people) with a similar model: http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/ - they already have multiple authors, but they don't provide this as an "author service" so to speak, as O'Reilly does in some ways. "

"What kind of science can you find in your city? Explore the science find in your city in a two-minute (or less) video. Look for technology and science principles all around - bicycles, boats, cars, fossils, fountains, mirrors, traffic lights, trees, trains - these are just some examples. There's science behind everything. Become a science communicator and show us what you found. "

"Welcome to kidsprogramming Free Programming Languages for Kids This Wiki is here to provide a resource for teachers. The intention is that teachers contribute to the resource thus sharing with the wider educational community. "

Experimental Aircraft Association. In addition to member services and news, provides Learn to Fly, Sport Pilot and Young Eagles information and encouragement to the aviation community. Chapter links help you to network at your own airport.

Earth, our Sun and solar system, and the universe out to its farthest reaches and back to its earliest moments of existence. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the nation's science community use space observatories to conduct scientific studies of the Earth from space to visit and return samples from other bodies in the solar system, and to peer out into our Galaxy and beyond. NASA's science program seeks answers to profound questions that touch us all

"X-Class: A Guide to Solar Flares Solar flares are classified according to their strength. The smallest ones are B-class, followed by C, M and X, the largest. A powerful X-class flare can create long lasting radiation storms, which can harm satellites, communications systems, and even ground-based technologies and power grids."

"The Ohio State University Department of Aviation and The Ohio State University Airport offer an extensive variety of outreach programs for people of all ages. Our faculty, staff, and students are passionate about aviation and want to share their enthusiasm with the community. Downloads You can download a Coloring Book or an Activity Book for children. The coloring book is appropriate for preschoolers and kindergarteners, whereas the activity book is for older children."