Please join with us to provide a great day for the Girls in our Bay Area Communities!
Your support and generosity will allow us to provide a unique and wonderful experience to all of the children that attend!
AWAM Chapter 16 Bay Area CA USA is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Charity
84-2428893.
Do you have branded swag that you can donate for the activity kits the girls take home?
Do you have any great raffle prizes to share?
Would you just like to help fund the day?
What about supplies for the various activities listed below?
If you are willing to partner with us please email Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com to arrange for delivery, pick-up or to provide the details for your donation receipt.
If you or your company are interested in partnering with us please email Keri at Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com to discuss options from hosting an activity of your choosing, donating activity supplies or funds to purchase supplies, speaking to the girls, sponsoring breakfast, snacks or lunch, providing raffle prizes, or other suggestions or ideas you may have.
Hodge Flight Services - https://www.hodgeflightservices.com/
DeWitt and Joanne Hodge and their team will have a flight simulator available for the girls to experience.
Plus they are donating an Introduction to Aviation Course, which includes 4 hours of training with a Certified Flight Instructor for the essay contest winner.
Stuffed Airplanes that the girls will follow FAA guidelines to repair a tear (open seam) with a baseball stitch.
Girls will learn about working with sheet metal safely.
The activity will include deburring drilled holes, filing edges, shaping corners, using clecos to hold two pieces of metal together and attaching them using blind (pop) rivets.
Girls will learn how to read and use the same maps that pilots use to chart a flight path.
Learn about succulents and plant one.
Have fun trying on different props and taking photos in front of a back drop.
Girls and their families will be escorted on the ramp to speak with pilots about their aircraft, ask about flying and possibly have the opportunity to sit in the pilot seat!!
Airplane Beads and more!! Create colorful necklaces and friendship bracelets!
10 AM - TBD
10:30 AM - TBD
11 AM - Brody Waren - EAA 393's 2023 Ray Aviation Scholarship (RAS) winner!
11:30 AM - TBD
12 PM - TBD
12:30 PM - Panel of Women in Aviation Careers
Do you have any branded items to add to the activity kits for the Girls to use during the day and/or take home?
Feel free to join us at our Monthly planning meetings - 4th Saturday of the month - 10 AM at the Buchanan Field Concord Airport Clubhouse
200 Buchanan Field Rd
Concord, CA 94520
and online at:
https://meet.goto.com/MartinMob/giad
You can also dial in using your phone.
Access Code:
165-078-869
United States:
+1 (408) 650-3123
Planning meetings are the 4th Saturday of the month 10 AM in person at the Buchanan Field Clubhouse - 200 Buchanan Field Rd Concord, CA 94520
June 22, July 27, & August 24
If you aren't able to attend in person please join us online at:
https://meet.goto.com/MartinMob/giad
You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (408) 650-3123
Access Code: 165-078-869
Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts:
Sewing Aircraft Stuffies - see https://gqccc.org/event-5621306 for more information.
Sheet metal work - We will need help cutting, filing edges, and drilling holes for the Sheet Metal Skills Activity.
If you are interested in helping with any of these please email Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com.
Friday 9/27/2024 - 3-9 PM GIAD Preparation Day
(last year we were there until 6:30/7PM)
Cleaning - sweeping, mopping, cleaning 2 restrooms, wiping down tables, snagging cobwebs with long duster, dusting blinds, etc.
Set Up - taping posters together, taping signs up, putting tablecloths on tables, possible food prep, organizing kitchen, moving plastic folding tables and chairs, prep and stage outside tables and chairs, and other similar things.
Possible Volunteer Training - would you like to know how to: teach the activity at your table? learn to marshal small aircraft? provide the safety briefing?
DAY OF:
Saturday 9/28/2024 - 7 AM to 4 PM - Girls in Aviation Day!
7 AM Set up crew arrives and starts erecting pop up tents, placing the outside tables and chairs, placing outside signage
7:30 AM Registration Volunteers arrive - organize your table and the name tag tables... make sure to know location of safety briefing area to direct families to after the girls create their name tags.
8/8:15 -11 AM Registration table is open
8:30-11:20 AM Safety Briefings - Activity Kits (Swag Bags) are handed out at the end of each Safety Briefing so we know which girls are eligible for the sheet metal skills activity and walking the ramp and seeing the aircraft.
8:45 AM - 2 PM Marshalling Team & Escort Teams are needed on the ramp - Coast Guard should be arriving by 9 AM and other aircraft should be too. Girls are allowed to start touring the aircraft as soon as their pilots are ready for them. Coast Guard has been requested until 2 PM so we may need escorts until 2 PM - depending on the girls and their families.
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Activity Tables are Active Jewelry Making, Soaring Potting and Photobooth are all planned to be open to anyone at any time Flight Simulator (Hodge Flight Services) will be scheduled Charts (WAI SF Bay Area), Aircraft Repair (stuffed airplanes with baseball stitch) & Sheetmetal Repair (tiny sheet metal aircraft - round corners, debur holes, clecos, pop rivet two pieces together) (AWAM) are planned for 30 minute sessions
Do you have an idea for other activities? would you like to lead an activity? Let Keri know at Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com
10 AM to 1 PM - Hoping to have 6 speakers - if you are interested in participating in a panel to discuss your career in Aviation, please let Keri know. That will be the 12:30 Speaker Session.
1 PM Raffle - We will need help setting up the raffle prizes and running the raffle on the day of the event. We will have many of the prizes the day before and we can set up a table during Prep time to help make Girls in Aviation Day less hectic.
2 PM Girls adjourned.
2-4 PM Clean up and pack up.
Women in Aviation International San Francisco - Bay Area Chapter https://www.waisfbayarea.org/
and
Mount Diablo Pilots Association https://mdpa.org/
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