2024 Women in Aviation, Mile High Chapter, Girls in Aviation Day!
Date: September 21 2024
Location: Sheltair at KBJC
Rocky Mountain Airport, Broomfield, CO 80021
This is a new hangar with no USPS address as of yet. The link below will take to to directly in front of the hangar, but it is the large hangar to the left of 9596 Metro Airport Ave Broomfield, CO 80021 and to the right of 9566 Metro Airport Ave Broomfield, CO 80021
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7BM9innCJMn571Y57
This event is open to all girls ages 8-18 to introduce the world of aviation and aerospace to our next generation of women. We will have interactive activities, demonstrations, and several members of the aviation community to help inspire our next generation of females.
Girls in Aviation Day has been instrumental in introducing girls all over the world to opportunities in aviation and STEM that they never would have considered. We work very hard to bring participants and role models together so girls can see themselves in those exciting roles.
Some of the exhibitors involved in this years Girls in Aviation Day:
*FAA Denver TRACON ATC
*Latino Pilots Association
*MSU Denver Collegiate Women in Aviation Chapter (They are taxing over an airplane)
*Colorado Skies Academy
*BPI (the Bates Philanthropic Initiative) charity (They provide scholarships/grants for trades)
*Colorado Division of Aeronautics (Flight Simulator and CO Sectional charts)
*Boeing Women in Leadership (Jeppesen ladies Sectional Scavenger Hunt)
*Visionary Training Resources Virtual Reality (VR demo sets)
*Lockheed Women's Impact Network (Building a mini astronaut lander)
*Sierra Nevada Corp (building paper airplanes and discussing engineering behind them)
*Frontier Airlines
*Southwest Airlines
*United Airlines
*JetLinx Corporate Aviation
There will be a food trunk on site 12-2 to purchase food from - Colorado Pig Rig
***The first 150 girls through the door at the event will receive a Girls in Aviation goodie bag***