WinnAero’s summer day camp program, the Aerospace Career Education “ACE Academies” conducted in association with the Federal Aviation Administration, are preparing for take-off with the first session scheduled at Laconia Airport running July 5 to 9. Subsequent sessions will run July 12 to 16 and July 19 to 23.
WinnAero Educational Programming Director, Dan Caron of Gilford, is excited about getting his team of certified instructors back following a one-year COVID-driven hiatus.
“We’re very conscious of the safety issues for our students,” Caron said. This year the non-profit group staff are 100% vaccinated, class sizes have been reduced from 10 to 8, instead of classrooms being used for sessions, a large hangar at the Airport will be used with more than adequate spacing between students, open hangar doors weather permitting and masks required in the flight simulator lab, on orientation flights and on field trips.
“As school teachers ourselves, our summer teaching staff felt the measures we’ve put in place for ACE will protect everyone while allowing our students to enjoy the unique ACE aviation/aerospace experience,” Caron said.
There are a few open seats still remaining for this summer’s sessions for those interested. There’s room in the July 5 to 9 session, which is divided into three components one half-day session for elementary-aged students, a full day high school session and a specific drone–themed session. Week two, July 12 to 16, is still accepting students in both the elementary half-day Space Academy and the middle school-aged full day Air Traffic Control session. Week three, July 19 to 23 has just a couple of seats left open as well.
Families can register their students for the ACE Academies and pay the tuition online at WinnAero.org. For more information or to reserve a spot now, contact Dan Caron at dan.caron@winnaero.org.