Six Girls in Aviation Day Events Planned

Six Girls in Aviation Day events in September will kick offthe Girls in Aviation Day worldwide outreach, planned for October 5, 2019.

The Women in Aviation International (WAI) Utah StateUniversity Chapter will hold its event on September 14, and expects 150participants, while the WAI Gone with the Wind (Atlanta) Chapter expects 400participants.

WAI Stars of the North (Minneapolis) Chapter was the firstchapter to host more than 1,000 girls. This year, its event on September 21,2019, will involve 2,000 girls. The relatively new WAI Bluegrass Chapter(Louisville, Kentucky) will hold its event as well on September 21 with anexpectation that 800-1,000 girls will attend. The WAI Sooner Chapter at theUniversity of Oklahoma will hold its Girls in Aviation Day event on September21 as well to coincide with the university’s open house activities where theyexpect about 300 attendees.

The WAI North Texas Chapter’s event will welcome 3,000attendees on September 21 to the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Dallas’s LoveField.

The majority of girls who attend a Girls in Aviation Dayevent are currently under-represented in the aviation community. Many come toGirls in Aviation Day via their connection with a Girl Scout troop orinvolvement with Girls Inc. What is stressed at every event are hands-on, funactivities that represent the variety of aviation careers– pilots in allaspects of aviation as well as mechanics, air traffic controllers, engineers,technicians, and many other aviation careers.

“Although we love the power of these huge Girls in AviationDay events, the power of Girls in Aviation Day comes not in the numbers, butfrom the connection between the girls and the adult role models when girls getto see people who look like them, look like their mothers, look like their auntsdoing things, and holding jobs they had never imagined themselves doing,” says WAIOutreach Director Molly Martin. “Our desire to share our passion for ouraviation vocations and avocations is what unites WAI members.”