The NASA-Wooddale Aviation Academy 2000 grant is a three-year cooperative agreement between NASA-Ames Research Center and Memphis City Schools. It is principlely administered from the Wooddale High School facilities in Memphis, Tennessee. The grant makes possible a full curriculum of studies to help students to increase mastery in math, science and technology subjects.
Besides a regular curriculum of Honors and Advanced Placement core subjects, the Aviation/Travel program offers several unique areas as its main aviation and travel courses.
An Aviation Ninth Grader takes the Aviation (Careers) Orientation Class
The Aviation Tenth Grader will take the Aviation Technology I Class
The following 11th and 12th grade years are more specialized:
During the 11th an aviation student may take
(a) Aviation Technology II, or
(b) Avionics/Computer Technology I, or
(c) Airframes and Powerplants (AMT) Course, or
(d) Travel and Tourism MArketing I
During their Senior year, Aviation students may take
(a) Aviation Technology II, or
(b) Avionics/Computer Technology II or III, or
(c) Airframes & Powerplants I or II (AMT) Course, or
(d) Travel and Tourism Marketing II
The project will use an aviation theme, an innovative digital computer networking infrastructure, and internet access to inspire and encourage students to increase their English, mathematics, science, and technology skills. This will be accomplished by integrating modified core subjects with relevant technology in each of the Aviation classrooms. Using classroom multimedia resources students can prepare for aeronautical careers including pilot training, aircraft mechanical and engineering, avionics equipment design and repair, airport operations and weather forecasting, travel and tourism, marketing, as well as with careers in computerized design and drafting, computer repair and programming, and telecommunications careers.
Participants include Memphis City Schools' personnel and a Wooddale Advisory Group (WAG). The WAG's educational committee is comprised of representatives from various area businesses, military services, local trade schools, junior colleges, four year college and university representatives.
Memphis, Tennessee is the home base for several major aviation related operations. It is the international headquarters for Federal Express Corporation. The Memphis-Shelby County International Airport Authority which has recently expanded their airport facilities and runway systems. Northwest Airlines has a major hub located in Memphis and has joined with KLM for international flights daily to Amsterdam. AMR Combs, Inc., operates an Executive Pilot Refueling Station and an international parts distribution center.
Travel and tourism marketing is the number two fastest growing industry in the country and it is a major industry in Western Tennessee. Sites include places such as; Elvis Presley's Graceland, BB King's Blues Club, a renovated Beale Street, the Pyramid coliseum, a full service convention and visitors' center with many activities, and many more great attractions throughout the mid-south.
Experts from these industries are available to share their knowledge via the internet and through personal school visits. Scientific projects, discoveries, and lessons learned can be shared throughout the web and examined closely in the aviation classrooms by using the local area network. The educational partners participate in class projects with students which make the subject studied take on industrial realities.
The Aviation Advisory Group's
MISSION STATEMENT is:
To enhance the student's knowledge of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology by encouraging top-level study in the field of aeronautics through the application of data communication and information systems which will inspire students to further seek an education leading to a vocational certification or to an advanced degree. Of equal importance, is the desire to spark student interest in pursuing one of the many technical careers that exist in the aviation manufacturing, airframes and powerplants maintenance, avionics technology, or travel and tourism marketing fields.
VALUES are:
The Wooddale High School Aviation Optional School program will become recognized locally, regionally, and nationally as a premier preparatory school for the continuing study in the fields of airport operations, aircraft design and manufacturing, airframes and powerplants maintenance certification, and avionics technology ratings, and travel and tourism marketing careers. The aeronautical repository will provide an invaluable database and source for research information.
Our MOTTO is:
Let Your Dreams Take Flight at Wooddale Aviation.
Products and Deliverables:
The Wooddale Aviation Academy 2000 grant focuses on secondary high school under represented and minority education populations with outreach programs to middle schools, trade schools, and junior colleges. Educators, students and education partners can obtain a catergorized URL's of aviation related subjects and web sites to assist in their aeronautical studies which will be listed when our web page is completed. Also, the computerized networking technology initiative model used at Wooddale to connect each of its on-site classrooms can be replicated easily for a low cost networking alternative. Finally, the remote classroom conceipt will test the distance learning techniques so very essential in the coming years for life long learning. As you can see, the Aviation Academy possesses some lofty goals for a program that is self-contained within a secondary High School.
Bob Archer, Principal Tom Schieffer Carole Shipman Wooddale High School Teacher/Grant Coordinator Teacher/Travel Coordinator 5151 Scottsdale Avenue NASA-Wooddale Aviation/Travel Academy 2000 Memphis, Tennessee 38118 Office:(901) 368-6684 Office: (901) 366-2440 Office: (901) 366-2440 Fax: 368-6657 Fax:(901) 366-2476 Fax: (901) 366-2476
E-mail: tschieff@mecca.mecca.org
Homepage: www.mecca.org/~tschieff/WOODDALE/woodframe.html
NASA - stands for the National Areonautics and Space Administration
MECCA - stands for Memphis Educational Computer Connectivity Alliance
