Successes and Best Practices

View some of our best CAP AE events, stories, suggestions, and lesson/activity aids from across the nation.

• Lt Col Stanley Troyano - AEX II Suggestions 
   
• Lt Col Stein, OH-219 - CAP Model Rocketry Resources
   
• Building Paper Rockets (video showing John Lynn, DAE of FL, and other CAP members conducting a community outreach AE activity)
   
• Capt Beichner - AEO Continuity Notebook (video explanation with instructions and examples)
   
• Lt Col Bill Turner - DAE AZ Wing - Success Story "Coming Out of the Woodwork"
   
• CAP and Team America Rocketry Challenge 2006
   
• Massachusetts Fly A Teacher 2006
   
• Ohio Wing AE Newsletter Launched
   

ORWg, Feb 03: The Oregon Wing has developed CAP Flight 2000, a Brewer Award winning program, which simulates a space shuttle flight along with mission control through the use of eight computers.  Players can be astronauts, flight directors or flight controllers and are confronted with a number of challenges involving aerospace systems and crew coordination.  For further information, contact ORWg HQ at (541) 688-9408  or  orwgcc@cap.gov

TNWg, Feb 02: The Tennessee Wing supports and contributes to the University of Tennessee Aerospace Education Teacher Workshop. This 3-week workshop was started in 1994 through the team efforts of the Wing DAE, the Southeast Region DCS/AE, and the Southeast Liaison Region DAE. Between 120 and 150 teachers, state-wide, take part in these graduate level credit workshops each year with tuition being paid by the Tennessee Aeronautics Commission.  For further information, contact TNWg HQ at (865) 573-9186/9950