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Volunteers from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson spent their weekend helping inspire children from local school districts to get involved in aviation. Volunteers participated in the Build-a-Plane program at Begich Middle School. The program is designed to help motivate children to take an active interest in aviation and life. The program got off the ground of the school after speaker Barrington Irving, the youngest and first African-American to pilot a plane around the world, stopped by the school for a speech, according to Angie Slingluff, FAA Education coordinator.

"In this lesson, your students will observe photographs of selected twentieth-century aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum and note differences in the design of aircraft wings, fuselages, and engines."

S.T.E.M. Education Through Aviation Students of all ages learn science, technology, engineering and math (S.T.E.M) through designing, building, and flying their own virtual airplanes. The software, including curricula and training,

"Burt Rutan took the lid off his latest project, the BiPod, at a homebuilders chat this morning, and it looks different than images released last week by Scaled Composites, Burt's former company that owns the design. The first images of the BiPod included CAD drawings with four propellers-one on each wing and two on the horizontal stabilizer between the tails of the twin-fuselage, hybrid-electric roadable aircraft."

"Virtual Air Challenge More Information Coming Soon! Students participate in a virtual aviation event. Students from schools all over the country can compete in aviation challenge flying virtual planes of their design."

"The Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) is designed to simulate reduced gravity environments, such as Lunar, Martian, or microgravity, using an overhead gantry crane system. ARGOS supplies continuous offload of a portion of a subject's weight during dynamic motions such as walking, running, and jumping, to simulate Lunar, Martian or microgravity. "

"10 Teams Officially Registered for 2011 CAFE Green Flight Challenge The CAFE Foundation has completed Design Review and registration for 10 teams to compete in the 2011 flight competition. These teams include one major university and are from states all across the USA. Their sizes vary widely, as can be seen in the table below. As hoped, teams will campaign with a wide range of energy sources; mogas, diesel, bio-diesel, hydrogen and electricity. The qualifications of the team leaders and members are very impressive."

"The National Aeronautic Association has certified the July 13 record for the University of Maryland's human-powered helicopter called Gamera. It achieved liftoff and hovered for 11.4 seconds, setting U.S. records for flight duration and for flight duration by a female pilot. (Watch a video of the flight.). It was designed and built by graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering and piloted by biology student Judy Wexler. "

"surveillance drone. The nano air vehicles (NAVs), modeled after falling Maple leaf seeds, are designed to be super light weight and agile for vertical lift off, hovering, and navigation in tight spaces. "

"NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which is carrying a suite of instruments including a $32 million University of Colorado Boulder package, has provided scientists with new information that energy from some solar flares is stronger and lasts longer than previously thought. See Also: Space & Time * Solar Flare * Sun * Northern Lights Earth & Climate * Geomagnetic Storms * Atmosphere * Energy and the Environment Reference * Solar flare * Solar radiation * Corona * Geomagnetic storm Using SDO's Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE instrument designed and built at CU-Boulder, scientists have observed that radiation from solar flares sometimes continues for up to five hours beyond the initial minutes of the main phase of a solar flare occurrence."

"Cool Stuff to do @ Home The activities are a part of The Tech's new IDEA (Innovation, Design, Exploration Activities) kits. They're a new endeavor for us here in the Programs Department, and we need your help and insight to make the kits program bigger, better, and more fun."

"Cool Stuff for the Classroom Design Challenge Lessons Online"

"The NASA Lunar Plant Growth Chamber design challenge helps teachers facilitate a collaborative science project for their students to determine the feasibility of using plants as bioregenerative life support systems for long duration space missions, including on future Moon bases. Plant growth will be an important part of space exploration in the future as NASA plans for long duration missions to the Moon and beyond to Mars."

The Bo 105 is a light twin engine multi purpose utility helicopter built by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) of Stuttgart, Germany. As the first light twin-engine helicopter in commercial service, it gained widespread use over rural areas (police and EMS / medevac) as well as offshore. The four-blade hingeless main rotor with composite blades ensures high maneuverability. All main systems (hydraulics, electric, fuel, lubrication) were designed to be fully redundant. "

"The NASA Minority Innovation Challenges Institute (MICI) will be offering Minority Serving Institutions the opportunity to apply for a $5,000 grant to assist their school in entering the 2012 NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition. Lunabotics is a university-level competition designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)."

This site is designed specifically for middle school girls to see all the applications and benefits of an engineering degree.

"A group of students at Chevak High School, located on the remote Alaskan tundra, worked together over the winter to build a Rans S-6s Coyote II experimental aircraft from a kit, and flew it for the first time on March 24. "The aircraft was beautifully built and was obviously the pride of the aeronautics class at the school," John Davis, a Designated Airworthiness Representative who flew in from Anchorage to inspect the airplane, told the Alaska Dispatch."

"how Electric Instrument Gauges work. There designs are explained and their positives and negatives."

"Lego WeDo. This kit costs US $129.95 and comes with a motor, a motion sensor, a distance sensor and a USB-based hub. The robots built using this kit can be controlled by a variety of software platforms, including Scratch - a free and open source programming environment designed for children. Its actually quite powerful. "