You’ll pilot a single-engine Cessna on a course you’ve plotted, learn how flight is an effective teaching tool for STEM subjects, and find your passion for teaching reinvigorated, but…

ABOVE ALL, IT’S FUN

2025 SUMMER DATES HAVE BEEN RELEASED! SCROLL DOWN FOR DETAILS AND FOR INFORMATION ABOUT UPCOMING EVENTS.

 

SUMMER APPLICATIONS FOR ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPS, OVERNIGHT HIGH SCHOOL CAMPS, AND TEACHERS AIR CAMP ARE NOW CLOSED. SELECTION NOTICES WILL BE SENT OUT NO LATER THAN MAY 10TH.

 

REGISTRATION FOR ELEMENTARY CAMPS AND THE HIGH SCHOOL – NO RESIDENCE CAMP WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGH APRIL 30TH.

 

Air Camp is grateful to generous donors who have provided funding to support a limited number of scholarships for our middle school and high school programs. Students should indicate their interest in being considered for a scholarship on their Air Camp application form, and those selected to participate in Air Camp will be notified of their scholarship status in May.

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STEM Educators K-12

TEACHER CAMPINSPIRING & ENGAGING
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Teachers Air Camp experience is an exciting and rigorous adventure for all who participate. Participants remember why they became a teacher all over again by working together to master a fun and challenging curriculum. The carefully designed experiences illuminate options that are available for students in the STEM fields after graduation and emphasize how principles of STEM can be infused into almost any lesson to enhance the learning process.

Curriculum
Making education an adventure

CURRICULUM

Educators will participate in a variety of engineering design challenges and learn innovative ways to infuse science, technology, engineering, and math into their lessons from STEM professionals at a variety of affiliated sites for up to fifteen hours each day.

Just like the student participants, they are provided unique access to aviation and aeronautics sites that promote creativity, productivity, and full engagement. The broad spectrum of events includes receiving expert instruction about the physics of flight, the opportunity to explore behind the scenes at the Dayton International Airport, and ultimately being able to pilot a small aircraft at Wright Brothers Airfield under the direction of an FAA certified instructor.

Additionally, waypoints are provided throughout the experience. Each one allows teachers from similar grade bands representing a variety of content subjects to collaborate develop ideas about lessons, units, and resource acquisitions in creative ways focusing on the values of scholarship, leadership, and citizenship.

The ultimate goal is for teachers to return to their classrooms with a newfound perspective of how to demystify the STEM fields for their students, build self confidence in their abilities, and encourage their curiosity. By encouraging students to effectively analyze each failed attempt as a means to discover the correct answer they can help shape collaborative leaders who will succeed in STEM career fields in the future.

Highlights
Targeted training yields years of benefits

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Enhancing the significance of the engineering design process during the wind tunnel learning module including airfoil design, testing, and redesign
  • Designing lessons aligned with key national academic standards in the STEM fields and beyond
  • Accumulating years of benefits for students in only two-and-a-half-days
  • Networking with professionals in the STEM fields about skills, content, and resources students need to be exposed to in order to achieve in related careers
  • Contributing to a collective, technology-based sharing of ideas that can be accessed by all participants beyond the training experience
  • Engaging in flight ground school at Sinclair College with some programs permitting flying as a student pilot at Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport
  • Exploring aviation heritage and affiliated sites as resources for their classrooms
  • Investigating careers and procedures on-site at Dayton International Airport

AIR CAMP IS AFFORDABLE FOR ALL
SELECTED 2020 TEACHERS

The Teachers Air Camp program is partially funded by individual, organizational, and/or corporate donors. All interested teachers are required to apply through the online application located on this page. The Teachers Air Camp program is partially funded by individual, organizational, and/or corporate donors. However, ALL selected teacher participants are subject to pay a $100.00 non-refundable registration fee during the registration process (as applicable) after being notified of their invitation to attend from the selection committee. The registration fee helps to off-set a small portion of the costs incurred by Air Camp, Inc. in the event that a registered attendee must later withdraw his/her intent to participate. Don’t miss out on this truly amazing opportunity!

What is included in the program?

  • All course instruction, activities, and events
  • All study materials and class sets of select resources and manipulative
  • An electronic binder with a variety of STEM lessons and engineering design challenges for students K-12
  • Optional lodging at a designated area hotel
  • Select Meals
  • Flight suit and selected equipment
  • Official Air Camp coin
  • Official Air Camp patch
  • Private bus transportation to and from all events throughout the experience
  • Official Air Camp log book to record flight time
  • One-on-One flight instruction as a student pilot in a general aviation aircraft
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