THE NATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY
The National Flight Academy is an educational initiative developed by the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL, to excite and educate youth (7th-12th grades) in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). This center is open to the general public, but also coordinates with schools, providing teacher training and in classroom pre-visit curriculum work, followed by on-site immersive, interactive mission simulations. At the Pensacola site, the NFA offers daily or multi-day (residential) sessions in a virtual aircraft carrier, The Ambition.
The NFA missions are non-combat and ask students to work through issues relating to aerodynamics, propulsion, navigation, aviation physiology, meteorology and logistics. These missions are constantly being updated and can help the students relate to current events, such as a recently developed NFA humanitarian relief mission simulation based on a local earthquake. And they get results: The NFA reports significant increases in testing scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in the areas of math and science, for students who have engaged in the NFA program.
It is our hope to create the interactive learning facility at the new NASG museum with the simulator based technology and daily (non-residential) curriculum of the NFA.
For more information about the NFA at the National Naval Aviation Museum, please visit:
The National Flight Academy is an educational initiative developed by the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL, to excite and educate youth (7th-12th grades) in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). This center is open to the general public, but also coordinates with schools, providing teacher training and in classroom pre-visit curriculum work, followed by on-site immersive, interactive mission simulations. At the Pensacola site, the NFA offers daily or multi-day (residential) sessions in a virtual aircraft carrier, The Ambition.
The NFA missions are non-combat and ask students to work through issues relating to aerodynamics, propulsion, navigation, aviation physiology, meteorology and logistics. These missions are constantly being updated and can help the students relate to current events, such as a recently developed NFA humanitarian relief mission simulation based on a local earthquake. And they get results: The NFA reports significant increases in testing scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test in the areas of math and science, for students who have engaged in the NFA program.
It is our hope to create the interactive learning facility at the new NASG museum with the simulator based technology and daily (non-residential) curriculum of the NFA.
For more information about the NFA at the National Naval Aviation Museum, please visit:
