Carrithers selected to KIAE board

GlobalAir.com is pleased to announce Jeffrey Carrithers, president and CEO to the board of the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education (KIAE).
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Feb. 22, 2013 - PRLog -- GlobalAir.com Announced to Board of KIAE

GlobalAir.com is pleased to announce Jeffrey Carrithers, president and CEO to the board of the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education (KIAE).

Louisville, Kentucky. (Feb. 21, 2013) – GlobalAir.com, a leading web-based aviation information website, is pleased to announce Jeffrey Carrithers, president and CEO of Globalair.com has been appointed to the board of the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education (KIAE). (http://www.kiae.org/) The KIAE program caters to high school students who wish to pursue careers in the aviation industry. The KIAE mission is to improve student learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and create career pathways in aerospace throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

As the program continues to grow, the KIAE requires a strong board of members to help drive students to success in multiple fields of aviation knowledge. Flight department heads, UPS pilots, aviation mechanics, and flight instructors are among the board as well. Similar to any other field of knowledge, aviation offers a large variety of potential, as well as positions and career employment opportunities. At the beginning of each calendar year, the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education’s board is assessed and made stronger; this year’s additions were no different. Mr. Carrithers was brought onto the board for his extended knowledge in aviation business, including advertising, web development, web design, marketing, public relations, etc. The director of the KIAE, Tim Smith has said “Jeff brings aviation business careers to the institute; this is something that is relatively new this year. Jeff offers an expanded wealth of knowledge regarding the “suit and tie” side of aviation. “

Carrithers notes, “The KIAE program is one of the most unique curriculums I have seen in any education system, much less in an aviation environment. One of the hardest jobs our teachers have is discovering how to engage their students”. He continues, “Engaging our youth in mathematics and physics is difficult.  KIAE shows students these principles through aviation and how they work in everyday life applications. From preliminary reports we have seen thus far, this program is really working”.  The KIAE program caters to high school students from twenty different high schools throughout Kentucky and southern Indiana; thus making up for twenty-five percent of the high school aerospace participants nationwide. KIAE is working hard to motivate young adults as they achieve their aerospace career goals.

About the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education

Tim Smith founded KIAE in 2010 while he was searching to find a method of teaching that would allow students to engage in fun, yet educational activities; both inside as well as outside of the classroom. What Tim found was a self-produced program commonly referred to as STEM learning. The STEM program was developed to reach out to students providing hands-on training in various aviation career fields. Tim would however, be sure to include science, technology, engineering and mathematics; thus making up the four letters of “STEM.” Due primarily to the STEM learning system, the KIAE was built, incorporating airworthy/part 91 certified aircraft that students worked to build for themselves. Educators hope to use the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education hand in hand with the STEM program to change state testing scores as well as motivate students to get excited about aviation. Aviation is an attainable goal; especially for high school students who have been offered this opportunity to jump start their careers. Not only are they given guidance from real life aviation professionals, but they are granted a scholarship and inevitably a chance to change their lives. For more information regarding the Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education please visit kiae.org (http://www.kiae.org/).

About GlobalAir.com

Based in Louisville, Kentucky, GlobalAir.com serves the general aviation, business aircraft, and regional airline communities by offering clients and online visitors a wide range of premium aircraft and aviation-related data and services. Services offered by GlobalAir.com include Aircraft Exchange (www.globalair.com/aircraft_for_sale) which lists aircraft for sale or lease, Airport Resource Center (ARC) (www.globalair.com/airport) that displays U.S. airport data, as well as the flight path planning application Max-Trax (www.airportfuelprices.com). Each of GlobalAir.com’s websites receives more than 300,000 visitors per month and helps connect the aviation industry.  For more information regarding GlobalAir.com, visit www.globalair.com, e-mail webmaster@globalair.com, or call 888-236-4309.

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Contact for Further Information

Jeffrey Carrithers

Globalair.com

888-236-4309

Jeffrey@ganmail.com

www.Globalair.com

Tim Smith

Kentucky Institute for Aerospace Education

502-320-9490

tim@kiae.org

www.kiae.org
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