Wisconsin Life

We're at EAA AirVenture, learning about this popular event and their efforts to welcome people into the world of aviation.

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EAA AirVenture has everything an aviation enthusiast dreams of. Amazing air shows, tours of planes, big and small, and endless learning opportunities. One of those opportunities is GirlVenture Camp, a multi-day camp welcoming young women into the world of aviation. We talked with one camp organizer to discover more about this wide-ranging program. GirlVenture is a camp for high-school-age girls, so it's more of an empowerment camp that they can do something. It's a support camp to where women mentors in all different areas of aviation. We get to do some flight planning, they do some rocketry, some engineering. So, we try to touch on a lot of different aspects. And then, we have a bunch of educators here and they're really promoting the STEM program, you know, science, technology, engineering, and math and showing the girls what they can do with any of that if they want.

Angela

With hands-on learning and mentorship, the program introduces campers to all aspects of aviation. We wanna educate to the diversity of aviation. My favorite saying is that "It takes an army to put a person in an airplane and make it fly.

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Angela

It's an opportunity only enhanced by the huge aviation event happening around them. What it does, as it runs along with AirVenture, is it allows us more to do and more people to talk to, more avenues to different areas. They can see everything from RCs to little airplanes and kit airplanes and how they're built, all the way up to the air show airplanes and, of course, a lot of the airlines and the great big airplanes and military airplanes. So, the, just the resources available here allow so much more than anywhere else. When it comes to aviation education, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has it all and then some.

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Angela

It's great to see young women soar. Now, let's dive into our next story,