ACE Announcements

ACE program registration opens 1 August each year.

 

See the ACE Teachers page for current program info for current ACE teachers. 

2023 National ACE & ACE Plus Award winners named!!! 

Thanks to the Air & Space Forces Association for the 2023 National ACE Award Grants!

• Get ready to prepare for YOUR ACE award for next year by reading about these award winners!

See ACE Teachers page for  award info in right menu column to prepare for next year!

 

                                                                                                                                                                
Past National ACE Award Winners:

2022 National ACE & ACE Plus Adopt Awards 

2021 National ACE Award Winners

2020 National ACE Award Winners

2019 National ACE Award Winners

2018 National ACE Award Winners

2017 National ACE Award Winner

2016 National ACE Award Winners

• See list of 2016 awardees; list of schools which were total ACE schools; and list of AFA sponsored ACE schools, HERE.

2015 National ACE Award Winners

• See 2015 National ACE Teacher Award Article HERE! 

2014 National ACE Award Winners

2013 National ACE Award Winners

2012 National ACE Award Winners

 

ACE in the News:

Please send news items to us at ace@capnhq.gov.

• 2019 Ten-Year ACE Article in Volunteer Magazine HERE

• Bear Exploration Center, Montgomery, AL- Newsclip of Aerospace Day

 

Grade Level ACE Student Manipulative Items:

• The following grade levels receive the aerospace manipulative item listed (which corresponds to one of the grade-level's ACE lesson plans):

  • Kindergarten: Earth balls- one of the associated lessons is "Caring for the Continents of Earth"

  • 1st grade: balsa planes- one of the associated lessons is "Glide and Step" 

  • 2nd grade: finger rockets- one of the associated lessons is "Hundreds of Rockets"  

  • 3rd grade: foam gliders- one of the associated lessons is "Round the Runways"  

  • 4th grade: Rocket Planez- one of the associated lessons is "Graph the Rocket Planez"   

  • 5th grade: prop balsa planes (with rubber bands)-  one of the associated lessons is "Plot Your Plane," and another is Academic Lesson #2, "Forces of Flight"  

                             

• 6th grade: mini-rocket footballs- one of the associated lessons is "Statistically Speaking,"  and  another is Physical Fitness Lesson #5, "From Football to Flight" 

  • Bernoulli bags are for demonstrating aerospace Academic Lesson #1, "Air-mazing Experiment") 

                                  

• See associated manipulative item lessons and other resources on the ACE Resources page.

• ACE curriculum guides are available in  the AE Downloads and Resources page of eServices! Click on "ACE Program Curriculum Guides."  Only Kindergarten is displayed, but when you click on it, all grade levels will appear for you to search, copy, download, etc. 

Have a question, comment, suggestion, or pictures to share?  Please send them to ace@capnhq.gov.

 

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