{"id":2328,"date":"2015-11-25T20:12:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/?page_id=2328"},"modified":"2021-02-12T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:41:03","slug":"9th-annual-education-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yesflyers.org.uk\/home\/9th-annual-education-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Annual Education Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong style=\"color: inherit; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;\">9th Annual Aviation Education Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0QN<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/strong>&nbsp;Saturday <strong>12th March<\/strong> <strong>2016 <\/strong>10:00 \u2013 16:00.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The 9th Annual Aviation Education Conference took place at<br>the historic venue of Brooklands Museum on March 12th, this was a little earlier than in previous years and I&#8217;m sorry if it caught a few people out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our sponsors this year were:<br><strong>Aviation Skills Partnership, Haywards Insurance Brokers, <\/strong><br><strong>P&amp;A Wood for Rolls Royce &amp; Bentley motor cars, <\/strong><br><strong>The British Model Flying Association,<\/strong><br><strong>The Light Aircraft Association Education Trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s thanks to these sponsors we were able to keep costs to&nbsp;reasonable levels again this year, if you meet up with any of them in the future please comment and offer our thanks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year about 60 delegates and staff gathered to learn from each other<br>where they had come from and what their individual aims and objectives<br>might be. That part of the event is akin to fishing because you never<br>know who or what you will catch to make dreams come true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The days agenda was filled with quick fire presentations in the morning<br>and &#8220;Breakout&#8221; sessions in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The following made presentations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Virginia Smith<\/strong><br>Brooklands Museum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">YES \u201cStronger Together\u201d<\/span><\/strong><br>Opening Speeches by<br><strong>Andre Faehndrich<\/strong> \u2013 YES Chairman<br><strong>Stewart Luck<\/strong> \u2013 YES Vice-Chairman &amp; Conference organiser<br><strong>Simon Witts<\/strong> \u2013 CEO Aviation Skills Partnership<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Aviation at Brooklands &amp; future projects<\/span><\/strong><br>by <strong>Valerie Mills<\/strong>,<br>Brooklands Museum Commercial Director<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>E<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">ngineering Apprenticeships at P&amp;A Wood,<\/span><\/strong><br>by<strong> Mark Hews,<\/strong><br>Programme Supervisor &amp; apprentice team<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">\u201cA Winning Team\u201d<\/span><\/strong><br>by <strong>Flt Lt Mark Bird,<\/strong><br>56 Sqdn (Woolwich) ATC<br>Winners of the LEES Trophy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Top Nav Competition<\/span><\/strong><br>by<strong> John Cairns,<\/strong><br>Royal Institute of Navigation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Women In Aviation<\/span><\/strong><br>by<strong> Pauline Vahey,<\/strong><br>BWPA and Aviatrix project &amp; AOPA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Aviation Without Borders<\/span><\/strong><br>by <strong>Stan Stewart,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Fly2Help<\/span><\/strong><br>by <strong>Alison Pavier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">IMechE Engineering competition<\/span><\/strong><br>by <strong>John Turton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">RAeS Careers &amp; Schools Build a Plane<\/span><\/strong><br>by <strong>Ros Azouzi<\/strong><br>&amp; The Wolverhampton B@P volunteers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>56 Sqdn. (Woolwich) ATC Band<\/strong><br>playing outside (Air Cadets)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-i-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The following presentations were \u201cBreakout&#8221; sessions in the afternoon. .<br>Education room Session 1<br><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">YES Flying Classsroom<\/span><\/strong> by<strong> Dave Hall &amp; Leia Fee<\/strong><br>Bristol Aero Collection<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Railton Room Session 1<br><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Careers in Oshkosh B\u2019Gosh<\/span><\/strong> by <strong>Steve Bell &amp; team<\/strong><br>The Scouts Association<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Vickers Suite Session 1<br><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Careers in Aviation<\/strong><\/span> by <strong>Ben Russell<\/strong><br>Aviation Skills Partnership<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Education room Session 2<br><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Raytheon Schools Drone Competition<\/strong><\/span> by <strong>Nick West<\/strong><br>Raytheon Corporate Affairs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Railton Room Session 2<br><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Shuttleworth Schools Day<\/span><\/strong> by <strong>Wes&#8217; Tierney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Vickers Suite Session 2<br><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">70 Years of Learning about Aeroplanes<\/span><\/strong> by<strong>&nbsp;Steve&nbsp;Slater &amp; Ann Hughes<\/strong><br>LAA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Education room Session 3<br><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Teaching STEM at IWM Duxford<\/span><\/strong> by <strong>Alison Giles<\/strong><br>IWM<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Railton Room Session 3<br><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The STN AEROZONE<\/span><\/strong> by <strong>Tim Hawkins<\/strong><br>Manchester Airports Group<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Vickers Suite Session 3<br><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">The Practical Application of the BMFA Education Programme<\/span><\/strong> by <strong>Manny Williamson,<\/strong><br>BMFA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It would be unreasonable to highlight one particular presentation, however, from the feedback I have received, the younger presenters blew everybody away with their ambitious and mature outlooks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brooklands is a great place to meet and the facilities and lunch they provided were superb.&nbsp;&nbsp;For that reason we are suggesting that the 10th Anniversary event will take place there on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sat March 25th 2017<\/strong><\/span> so pencil that \u201cin the diary\u201d now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you wish to attend, or make a presentation or sponsor the event<br>please make contact us ASAP to express your interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Stewart Luck<\/strong><br><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a href=\"mailto:captainluck@hotmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">captainluck@hotmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>07974188395<\/strong><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9th Annual Aviation Education Conference Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey KT13 0QN &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Saturday 12th March 2016 10:00 \u2013 16:00. 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