On Nov. 7, the Challenger Learning Center of Richland County School District One in South Carolina hosted the fourth annual Aerospace Career Day.
Aerospace Career Day provides high school students an opportunity to meet with representatives from aerospace companies to learn about career options in the aerospace industry. They can also meet with representative from colleges, universities, and other educational institutions to find out how to get the training and education they need to qualify for the career they are interested in.
Approximately 350 high school students attended the career day, which featured representatives from:
- The Boeing Company
- Career and Technology Education of Richland One
- Career Performance
- CTS International
- College of Charleston (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Greenville Technical College
- Jim Hamilton — L.B. Owens Airport (CUB)
- Lockheed Martin
- Michelin Aircraft Tire Corp.
- Midlands Technical College
- Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics
- S.C. Aeronautics Commission
- South Carolina Fire Academy (Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting)
- S.C. Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM)
- Triumph Fabrications
- U.S. AeroTech Institute
- United States Air Force
- United States Navy
- University of South Carolina–College of Engineering and Computing
- University of South Carolina–Project Lead the Way
The Challenger Learning Center for Space Science Education is an aeronautics and space-themed educational program designed to provide interactive learning experiences, integrating science, technology, engineering, and math curricula with information and technology.
Next year’s career day is set for Nov. 6, 2015.
We work with K-12 students, so I do not have any scholarships available for college students. I have shared your son’s contact information with the McNair Center at the University of South Carolina–they have an aerospace engineering program. I’ve asked them to contact him if they have any scholarships available. More information about their program is available here: http://www.sc.edu/mcnair/degreeprograms.php .
Our son is checking into different college to be a Aerospace Engineering , He is in the 11th grade he works for D’ Shannon Aviation Buffalo Mn -, He belongs to Chapter 878 Maple Lake airport he has been with Aviation since 11 yrs old he is 16 now , He is a young Eagle and he has attend the Air Academy school for the fifth time in the summers, His world is Aviation & Design & Computer s & Technology – & science – He went to school for Solid works which he already knew in 9th grade he took cad design , He is the only student from Monticello High school MN that is in Aviation and the surrounded areas, If you have any scholarships for him let us know how to apply for these, He wants the top of line for colleges for Aerospace Engineering he said there is one in Az, and Nc, I just thought I would write to you for any information you may have to help him with college, He is taking a career class this year for a credit and they have been looking at different colleges but its sounds like he will have to go to a different state for the top Aerospace Engineering programs. This is his Address if you want to send him anything, Wyatt Erickson 10784 Bolton Ave, NW Monticello MN 55362
Thanks,
Connie Erickson