[Courtesy: Florida Air Museum's Aerospace Center for Excellence]
Key Takeaways:
The Aerospace Center for Excellence at the Florida Air Museum has launched "STEM Sprouts," a new program to introduce aviation and STEM topics to preschoolers (ages 3-5).
Following a "cradle to cockpit" philosophy, the program uses hands-on, play-based activities, story time, and age-appropriate experiments to make learning about aviation fun and engaging.
Its goals are to foster a love of learning, lay a foundation for STEM knowledge, and cultivate a lifelong relationship with aviation, with plans to expand to higher grade levels in the future.
“A” is for airplane. “B” is for balloon. “C” is for cockpit.
Can you imagine learning about aviation not to mention your ABCs this way? Some lucky preschoolers in Florida are having this opportunity through the STEM Sprouts program at the Aerospace Center for Excellence at the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
