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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...

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!...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

Teacher Appreciation Week was held earlier this month. Civil Air Patrol celebrates our Aerospace Education Officers and Aerospace Education Members. These volunteers and teachers continue to shape futures of hundreds of thousands of youth each year by bringing engaging and inspiring STEM education (and the careers it leads to) to...

With the arrival of a new year, take a look back at the youth impacted and records broken by the programs and products of Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Education (AE). With an AE mission to inspire the next generation of aviation, space, and cyber leaders through STEM education, CAP AE...