NASG MUSEUM AND LEARNING CENTER
NASG was, at its heart, a facility devoted to training, technology and readiness.
The NASG museum and learning center that we hope to establish in our community, will have 2 synergistic and complimentary components - one educating about the past, and one preparing for the future. Initial business plans and feasibility studies are currently underway which will set the path for achieving the goal of creating a permanent museum and STEM learning center on former NASG land, whether free-standing or in an existing structure, in the near future.
THE MUSEUM: For twenty years, The Glenview Hangar One Foundation (GHOF) has done a tremendous job in preventing the loss of the substantive history of NASG and in preserving several of the air base's historic buildings (such as the Hangar One Tower). GHOF operates the current NASG Museum situated adjacent to former base property. This facility, however, is located in an industrial area not readily and easily accessible to the public, and not able to house the volume of NASG artifacts which GHOF has amassed. Further, a larger and more permanent facility will need to be established if one of the NASG WWII planes recovered from Lake Michigan is to be displayed in the museum. It is our hope that GHOF's expertise and our community's efforts can come together to create a state of the art facility that proudly achieves the promise of honoring this vital chapter of American history. Please see the FM-2 Wildcat page for further information on our hopes to bring home this historic and rare military aviation artifact.
THE LEARNING CENTER: The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning center at the site is intended to be modeled after the youth-oriented learning annex of the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola - called the National Flight Academy (NFA). This portion of the NASG facility will offer immersive, non-combat, humanitarian mission based flight planning, coordination and simulation to achieve core STEM learning objectives. There are only a handful of other places in the country where this complete cutting edge educational experience can be found - in Pensacola, at the USS Yorktown museum and learning center in South Carolina and within a community in Pax River, Maryland. These sites are regional draws for students (7th-12th grades), corporations, and the public, and show multi-fold increases in state science and math testing scores for students who participate in the NFA programs. Results from the most recent global survey of developed nations show that US high school students' rankings (during 2009 to 2012) have fallen from 25th place to 31st place in math, from 20th to 24th place in science, and from 11th to 24th place in reading. Experts indicate that the US students are staying stagnant, while other nations' youth are moving forward. The US also faces a severe pilot shortage in the next 10 to 15 years, as 50% of our commercial pilots are over 50 years old - this is a huge safety concern within the aviation community, and has increased industry-wide focus on encouraging youth interest in flight. Please see the National Flight Academy page for more information on this exciting and interactive aviation based programming.
NASG was, at its heart, a facility devoted to training, technology and readiness.
The NASG museum and learning center that we hope to establish in our community, will have 2 synergistic and complimentary components - one educating about the past, and one preparing for the future. Initial business plans and feasibility studies are currently underway which will set the path for achieving the goal of creating a permanent museum and STEM learning center on former NASG land, whether free-standing or in an existing structure, in the near future.
THE MUSEUM: For twenty years, The Glenview Hangar One Foundation (GHOF) has done a tremendous job in preventing the loss of the substantive history of NASG and in preserving several of the air base's historic buildings (such as the Hangar One Tower). GHOF operates the current NASG Museum situated adjacent to former base property. This facility, however, is located in an industrial area not readily and easily accessible to the public, and not able to house the volume of NASG artifacts which GHOF has amassed. Further, a larger and more permanent facility will need to be established if one of the NASG WWII planes recovered from Lake Michigan is to be displayed in the museum. It is our hope that GHOF's expertise and our community's efforts can come together to create a state of the art facility that proudly achieves the promise of honoring this vital chapter of American history. Please see the FM-2 Wildcat page for further information on our hopes to bring home this historic and rare military aviation artifact.
THE LEARNING CENTER: The science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning center at the site is intended to be modeled after the youth-oriented learning annex of the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola - called the National Flight Academy (NFA). This portion of the NASG facility will offer immersive, non-combat, humanitarian mission based flight planning, coordination and simulation to achieve core STEM learning objectives. There are only a handful of other places in the country where this complete cutting edge educational experience can be found - in Pensacola, at the USS Yorktown museum and learning center in South Carolina and within a community in Pax River, Maryland. These sites are regional draws for students (7th-12th grades), corporations, and the public, and show multi-fold increases in state science and math testing scores for students who participate in the NFA programs. Results from the most recent global survey of developed nations show that US high school students' rankings (during 2009 to 2012) have fallen from 25th place to 31st place in math, from 20th to 24th place in science, and from 11th to 24th place in reading. Experts indicate that the US students are staying stagnant, while other nations' youth are moving forward. The US also faces a severe pilot shortage in the next 10 to 15 years, as 50% of our commercial pilots are over 50 years old - this is a huge safety concern within the aviation community, and has increased industry-wide focus on encouraging youth interest in flight. Please see the National Flight Academy page for more information on this exciting and interactive aviation based programming.