November 14, 2024
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On Nov. 15 and 22, Accomack and Northampton eighth graders will learn about rocketry and drones to celebrate the lab school.
A two-day event will invite 400 eighth-grade students in Accomack and Northampton counties to celebrate the launch of the Aerospace Academy of the Eastern Shore (AAES), an aerospace-focused laboratory school powered through collaborative partnership between Old Dominion University, Eastern Shore Community College, Accomack County Public Schools and Northampton County Public Schools.
The AAES provides an innovative learning environment to give students in Accomack and Northampton counties access to the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to succeed in STEM fields. Aerospace and its adjacent industries are identified as growth sectors in the commonwealth, and the school leverages business and industry partnerships to explore pathways into aerospace information and security systems and aerospace engineering and explorations.
The event will include:
- Construction and launch of rockets in collaboration with NASA Wallops
- Drone coding and learning about package delivery with Virginia Space Grant Consortium, Sentinel Robotics Solutions, NASA Langley Research Center and Drone Up.
The event will be on two days, November 15 and November 22 from 9:30 AM to 1 p.m. at Eastern Shore Community College.
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