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Maj Sylvie Kacmarcik of Washington Wing begins a cybersecurity education presentation using CYBER.ORG materials. Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Education is thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership with CYBER.ORG, an initiative of the Cyber Innovation Center. This collaboration is set to significantly enhance our ability to provide high-quality cybersecurity education...

Explore exciting updates to the Aerospace Education Excellence (AEX) program materials, now conveniently located in Absorb! You'll find a thoughtfully revised and expanded selection of lessons -- such as Aircraft Design Lab (pictured) -- all designed to spark curiosity and empower learners. These updated resources build upon the engaging core...

CAP members who are educators are eligible for one TOP flight per fiscal year. Our new fiscal year has begun; so NOW is a great time for teachers to fly over their schools and communities! Teachers, to request a flight, contact your state’s volunteer Director of Aerospace Education (DAE) as found...

Join Aerospace Education for an exciting opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking NASA research. Following the tremendous success of our Solar Eclipse Missions in 2023 and 2024, the Civil Air Patrol is again collaborating with NASA for the 2025 Contrail Mission to study how aircraft affect weather in the upper atmosphere....

As 2024 comes to a close, Civil Air Patrol's Aerospace Education team thanks our members for an amazing year inspiring youth in STEM and aerospace discoveries, including careers.

Here is a video of record-breaking programs. We have much to celebrate and are looking forward to even more STEM/aerospace adventures in 2025. Happy Holidays!

 

Civil Air Patrol cadets mentor ACE students in classrooms with airplanes, rockets, and career exploration! Teachers in grades 5-8 who register for the ACE program can have their classroom adopted by a local CAP squadron with adults and cadets coming to the school to teach ACE and other aerospace/STEM lessons! To find out how...

Civil Air Patrol volunteers made history by becoming citizen scientists during the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses. On Jan. 11, we will have a special webinar with scientists from NASA’s Goddard and Langley Research Centers, who will share how they have been using the data CAP members helped collect.  When: Saturday, Jan. 11,...

CAP aerospace partner, the Air & Space Forces Association (AFA), provides CAP two ways to recognize outstanding cadets! 1) Every CAP cadet and composite squadron has the opportunity to reward an outstanding squadron cadet each year with a nice ribbon/medal/certificate. Between now and Jan. 15, every squadron can submit an award package request...

Do you know an outstanding Civil Air Patrol member or organization working with or within CAP worthy of being nominated for one of several national AE awards?  Anyone can nominate an exemplary cadet, AE officer, support organization/individual, and/or educator member excelling in aerospace/STEM education with CAP.      Identifying those stellar performers for a...

A rocketry team of cadets from Civil Air Patrol Brackett Composite Squadron 64 in La Verne, California, placed 12th at the 2024 National Finals of the American Rocketry Challenge, known as the world's largest rocket contest. The finals were held in May at Great Meadow in The Plains, Virginia. More than...