ACE Academies prep for take-off

LACONIA — WinnAero’s summer day camp program, the Aerospace Career Education “ACE Academies,” conducted in association with the Federal Aviation Administration, are preparing for take-off with the first session scheduled at Laconia Airport running July 5-9. Subsequent sessions will run July 12-16 and July 19-23.

WinnAero Educational Programming Director, Dan Caron of Gilford, is excited about getting his team of certified instructors back following a one-year COVID-driven hiatus. “We’re very conscious of the safety issues for our students” Caron stated. This year the non-profit group staff are 100 percent vaccinated, class sizes have been reduced from 10 to eight, instead of classrooms being used for sessions, a large hangar at the Airport will be used with more than adequate spacing between students, open hangar doors weather permitting and masks required in the flight simulator lab, on orientation flights and on field trips. “As school teachers ourselves, our summer teaching staff felt the measures we’ve put in place for ACE will protect everyone while allowing our students to enjoy the unique ACE aviation/aerospace experience” Caron added. There are a few open seats still remaining for this summer’s sessions for those interested.

There’s room in the July 5-9 session which is divided into three components; one half-day session for elementary-aged students, a full day high school session and a specific drone–themed session.

Week two, July 12-16 is still accepting students in both the elementary half-day session, the Space Academy and the middle school-aged full day Air Traffic Control session.

Week three, July 19-23 has just a couple of seats left open as well.

Families can register their students for the ACE Academies and pay the tuition on-line at www.WinnAero.org. For more information or to reserve a spot now, contact Dan Caron at dan.caron@winnaero.org.