… The South Dakota State University aviation program hosted students from the Sioux Falls School District’s Career and Technical Education Academy on a recent visit to the Brookings Regional Airport. About 50 high schoolers from the academy made the trip to Brookings Oct. 12 to learn what the aviation program has to offer at SDSU. CTE Academy Aviation and Media Arts teacher Laureen … said. “If they’re part of the CTE aviation classes, they have an interest in aviation and want to know more about it. So this is the next step if aviation is their career path. By coming up here, they get to talk to students who are in our program, some of our certified flight instructors and Admissions.” Admissions information included a brief presentation on …
… SDSU hosts Aim High Flight Academy with Air Force Aim High Flight Academy student Gabrielle Bernard-Ngujede trains with SDSU certified flight instructor Walker Risa on a flight simulator at the Brookings Regional Airport. The South Dakota State University aviation program teamed up … students from as far away as Hawaii, Florida and Delaware participated. Students spent their time both on campus—where they received ground instruction, stayed in dorms, ate in Larson Commons and worked out at the Miller Wellness Center—and at the Brookings Regional Airport—where they used flight simulators and climbed into the cockpits and up in the air in SDSU’s … students a higher score on their application to become a pilot in the Air Force, should they choose that route. “The academy is giving students, who have thought about it but were maybe intimidated by aviation, an opportunity to come see what it looks like, both the college experience and the Air Force,” Bastemeyer said. “The exposure to it, seeing what it’s …