Volunteer as a STEM Educator for Civil Air Patrol

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Civil Air Patrol's Oak Ridge Composite Squadron is seeking a volunteer to serve the Oak Ridge community as a Aerospace Education Member. Civil Air Patrol is the only entity nationally chartered by the US Congress to teach the science and history of aviation and aerospace.

An AEM is a special category of CAP membership that entitles educators to access products and programs designed especially for teaching aerospace/STEM Education and integrating this fascinating subject into the curriculum.

As an AEM, you will determine how to best utilize the many CAP aerospace/STEM education materials, programs, and products with your student(s) as you promote aerospace/STEM education. If a teacher wants to become more involved, there are many opportunities to attend workshops, to do a special activity with cadets or other community youth, and/or to assist in the development of new curriculum.

As an AEM you may recieve:

• Free K-12 Books. You can select up to six hard copy free books in your grade level area to be shipped to you, if so desired.
• Free K-12 STEM Kits. You can apply for one at a time of our variety of STEM Kits.
• Free K-12 Aerospace Excellence Award Program. This award program culminates with AEX certificates for the educator and student participants. To earn these award certificates, the educator will need to conduct 6 aerospace/STEM lessons from our many AEX books or other resources, AND, a 2-hour event, such as a rocket or hot air balloon launch; an airplane build and fly-off event; or a trip to a museum, airport, or other aerospace location.
• Free Flights on CAP Aircraft. Once per year an AEM may fly on a Civil Air Patrol aircraft as part of our Teacher Orientation Program.

About Civil Air Patrol Civil Air Patrol is the longtime auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force and as such is a valued member of its Total Force. In its auxiliary role, CAP operates a fleet of 560 single-engine aircraft and 1,550 small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS). It performs about 90% of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and is credited by the AFRCC with saving an average of 82 lives annually. CAP’s 66,000 members also perform homeland security, disaster relief and drug interdiction missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. Operating as a nonprofit organization, CAP also plays a leading role in STEM/aerospace education, and its members serve as mentors to 28,000 young people participating in CAP’s Cadet Programs. Visit www.CAP.News or www.GoCivilAirPatrol.com for more information.

"Volunteers serving America's communities, saving lives, and shaping futures."