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Opportunities on the Horizon
“UAVs provide interesting ways to extend humanitarian efforts to serve communities, especially in Af- rica and Latin America,” Nelson ex- plained. “We’re building partnerships now to grow in the newly available technologies. We want to bring urgent anti-venom treatments and medical supplies to forested or hard-to-reach areas that a typical piloted aircraft can’t easily access.”
Educational Programming
Everyone in aviation these days is looking for enthusiastic, well-trained employees. Wings of Hope is actually doing something about it. In addition to Nelson’s responsibilities in global initiatives, she also directs the efforts of Wings of Hope’s education pro- grams domestically. SOAR into STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), launched in partner- ship with Boeing, welcomes students into the Wings of Hope hangar in St. Louis for a dynamic hands-on
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learning experience that explores principles of flight, aircraft mainte- nance, aerodynamics engineering, and Unmanned Aerial Systems. “We are currently hosting two learning modules per year for St. Louis area schools; however, requests to dupli- cate what we have created are start- ing to come in from outside of St. Louis. Teacher recruiting and train- ing efforts for our summer module are in full swing, and we expect to launch a new remote program in fall 2023. Our goal is equitable access to aviation education for all students”, Nelson explained.
How we can Help
Awareness is crucial to helping Wings of Hope reach its goals. Twin & Turbine is playing that role in a small way, but we hope that after reading this story, others in our ro- bust aviation community can take ad- vantage of the opportunity to assist. Whether providing a gift of financial support personally or through your
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