Aerospace Education

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Aerospace Education
Page 7 in Guide 90 minutes Includes 2 Case
Studies Instructor See Notes View of this
Overhead.
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Main Points

• Strategy
• Internal Program
• and Case Study
• External Program
• and Case Study
• Staffing
• Aerospace Educations Impact on
• Emergency Services
• Cadet Programs

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Strategy

• Plan of Action
• Shows wings strategy
• (in Wing AEOs continuity book)
• units should have similar continuity book
• Updated annually
• Squadrons due to Wing by December
• Endorsed by the Wing Commander
• Wings due to Region by January

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Strategy

• How Wing Monitors
• Primary way wing commanders monitor AE is through
  quarterly reports. In Ohio, however, it is an
  on-going activity.
• stories, pictures, news clippings show the AE
  Program is working. The more sent in, the better
  we look
• Shows what activities carry out Plan of Action
• New model rocketry program

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Strategy

• Wing and Region Conferences
• The Wing DAE sets this up for Wing and Region
• often as part of the senior or cadet conferences
• often assists Region in their AE conferences
• Consists of
• speakers
• workshops
• field trips

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Strategy

• Wing and Region Conferences
• Dates
• to be announced
• Notified by
• wing website
• wing e-mail

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Internal Program

• Broad Vision for Internal Program
• Support Cadet Encampments
• required as part of encampment curriculum
• AF Museum field trip
• Support Unit AE program
• Unit contacts
• Contact wing DAE
• Support Cadet Competition
• AE Quiz Bowl and AE exam items

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Internal Program

• Aerospace Education Excellence (AEX) Program
  (formerly AE 2000 Program)
• What it is
• 2 books, takes 6 to 12 months, get
  plaque/certificate
• A program for teachers about how to do AEX
• Helps unit by
• reinforcing AE training

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Internal Program

• Promoting AE for Seniors
• AEO Specialty Track
• AEPSM (Yeager Award) Test
• open book (current version recommended)
• 100-item test
• done at unit or NHQ CAP on line
• correctable to 100 percent
• Credit
• already in NHQ CAP computer if done on line
• send answer sheet to Wing DAE

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Internal Program

• Promoting AE for Seniors
• Certificate
• notify Wing DAE you got credit on NHQ CAP
  computer
• certificate given to your commander
• Note
• if Yeager earned before Certificate of
  Proficiency you get gold endorsement seal on COP
• if Yeager earned after, no endorsement seal
• Yeager may be earned in Level IV (if not done
  earlier) in place of making a public CAP or AE
  presentation to an non-CAP group

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Internal Program

• AE Awards for Cadets and Seniors
• Frank G. Brewer Award
• apply on CAPF 25 by 15 January to Wing DAE
• In justification section use S/TAR format
• Situation/Task Action Results
• be as concrete and quantifiable as possible
• how winners selected
• Wing forwards all nominations to Region by 1
  February
• Region board selects winner for Region and
  forwards winner to NHQ CAP by 1 March
• NHQ CAP board selects winner by 15 April

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Internal Program

• AE Awards for Seniors
• Crown Circle Award
• Apply on Crown Circle nomination form (in CAPP
  15) to reach NHQ CAP LMA by 1 January
• NHQ CAP LMA committee selects 3 to 5 winners
• A. Scott Crossfield Teacher of the Year Award
• Apply on A. Scott Crossfield Teacher of the Year
  nomination form (in CAPP 15) NHQ CAP LMA by 1
  February
• 1000 cash stipend
• NHQ CAP LMA provides A. Scott Crossfield and a
  committee to select a winner

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Internal AE Case Studyoverhead 1 of 3

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• Your friend, the Wing Director of Aerospace
  Education, has asked you to help him out. He
  tells you that the annual Wing Conference is just
  a couple months away and he wants to do something
  a little different for the cadets.

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Internal AE Case Studyoverhead 2 of 3

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• In previous years Aerospace Education has
  traditionally sponsored both an essay contest and
  a model airplane contest where squadrons submit
  their best models and speakers. The top three
  squadrons in each category receive a trophy, and
  the cadet responsible for the writing of the
  winning essay also receives an individual award,
  such as a certificate.

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Internal AE Case Studyoverhead 3 of 3

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• The Wing DAE tells you that interest in these
  contests has dropped off a little in recent
  years, and he really wants to jump start the
  contest. He says that the wing commander has
  authorized the traditional budget for trophies
  and certificates, but that is not the problem. He
  wants some fresh ideas for an AE contest at the
  wing conference which (1) will not cost the
  individual cadets and squadrons a lot of money,
  (2) will be educational, (3) will be fun not only
  to take part in, but also for conference
  attendees, (4) will not be too hard to
  administer, and (5) will not be too
  time-consuming for potential judges.
• What are your suggestions?
• questions and answers on following overheads

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• Is there anything wrong with the type of contest
  presently in use?

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• Is there anything wrong with the type of contest
  presently in use?
• Answers vary.

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• Can the contest be made better?

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• Can the contest be made better?
• For the purpose of this exercise, they can be.
  Interest in the existing contest has dropped off
  in recent years. It could also be inferred that
  the cadets are not learning as much as they
  should.

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• Should the squadrons be consulted about what kind
  of contest should be held?

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• Should the squadrons be consulted about what kind
  of contest should be held?
• Yes, the squadron can give you an idea bout cadet
  interests, how much time and money they can
  invest, and what could make good prizes, etc.

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• How do the conditions listed affect your ideas?

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• How do the conditions listed affect your ideas?
• Answers vary. List ideas.

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• How can you make this fun for the cadets, judges
  and spectators at the conference?

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Internal AE Case Study

• Something Different for Cadet Conference
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• How can you make this fun for the cadets, judges
  and spectators at the conference?
• Answers vary.

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External Program

• How Wing Promotes External AE
• AEM Conferences
• For AEM (teacher and home schooler) members
• School Visits
• Very few done because
• few AEF packets
• Sample Aerospace Education Foundation Packets
• Contains teaching plan for different subject
  areas
• Part of AEM materials they paid for by their 30
  annual membership
• squadron activities not reported

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External Program

• How Wing Promotes External AE
• NCASE (National Congress on Aviation and Space
  Education)
• 200 teachers/home schoolers attended last year
• 100 active CAP members attended last year

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External Program

• How Wing Promotes External AE
• Aerospace Education Members
• different from regular CAP membership
• not wear CAP uniform or hold CAP grade
• not participate in senior member program
• not serve in senior member positions
• special permission to fly in CAP aircraft
• AEM time not creditable to CAP retirement
• how wing recruits them
• Some from Wing Website
• Mostly from National Website

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External AE Case Studyoverhead 1 of 2

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• You are the wings External Aerospace Education
  Officer and want to become more active in the
  wings elementary schools. Presently, you have
  Aerospace Education Members in two of the wings
  16 counties (each within 15 miles of your
  location, incidentally), and schools in four
  other counties are interested.

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External AE Case Studyoverhead 2 of 2

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• There are 12 units in the wing, with 10 units
  having aerospace education officers. These units
  are in 10 of the wings 16 counties, and there
  are units where schools either already
  participate or have expressed interest.
• Develop a plan to increase CAPs aerospace
  education exposure in the wings schools.
• questions and answers on following overheads

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• What resources (people, facilities, etc.) can you
  tap can you tap to assist you in this effort?

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• What resources (people, facilities, etc.) can you
  tap can you tap to assist you in this effort?
• Resources you can tap include the AEOs and
  AEMs, the State Director can also make the
  initial contact, neighboring wings can also give
  you ideas and hints about what has made their
  programs successful.

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• How aggressive do you want to be in reaching the
  wings schools?

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 12 in Student Guide)
• How aggressive do you want to be in reaching the
  wings schools?
• This depends on the amount of attention you can
  afford to give, the relative health of the
  program as a whole, the resources you have
  available, and the level of activity you feel you
  can sustain for a given length of time.

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 13 in Student Guide)
• What are you willing to expend (resources, money,
  time) to achieve the level of participation you
  want? (short-term and long term)

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 13 in Student Guide)
• What are you willing to expend (resources, money,
  time) to achieve the level of participation you
  want? (short-term and long term)
• Things to consider mail costs, printing costs,
  supplies for display, transportation (air and
  ground, personal and corporate)

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 13 in Student Guide)
• How will the program and other departments suffer
  or benefit based on what you decide? How will
  other departments suffer or benefit?

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External AE Case Study

• Increase CAP AE Exposure in Schools
• (p. 13 in Student Guide)
• How will the program and other departments suffer
  or benefit based on what you decide? How will
  other departments suffer or benefit?
• Answers vary.

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Staffing

• Ohio Wing Staff
• AE Director Maj Demyan
• Internal AE Capt Johnson
• External AE Capt Bradshaw

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Staffing

• How Recruit Train Other AE Members
• AEOs
• squadron visits
• AE conferences
• AEMs
• school visits
• orientation flights

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Staffing

• Some AEM Benefits
• free National Standards AE materials
• low-cost AE text books
• orientation flights in powered aircraft
• AE speakers and resources
• low-cost AE continuing education
• scholarships for teachers students
• eligibility to apply for grants
• access to Satellite Tool Kit

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AEs Impact on...

• Emergency Services
• gives CAP its aviation identity, unique from
  other ES organizations
• provides technology needed in ES, as aircraft,
  satellite radios, GPS, microcomputer tech in
  radios, videos, digital imaging
• Cadet Program
• mandatory element of cadet achievement program
• cadet orientation flights
• NASA and Air Force Museum field trips
• Link to National Special Activities (AETCFC,
  AFSCFC, NFE, NEG)