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NEWS RELEASE
Phone: 386-226-6525 Embry-Riddle President to Award Summer Camp Scholarships to Campbell Middle School Students
The ceremony will culminate the year-long partnership between Embry-Riddle and Campbell Middle School in which their joint program, Launch Your Future, infused the sixth-grade curriculum with aerospace and aviation topics and activities. Coordinated by Dr. Joanne Detore-Nakamura, Embry-Riddle director of diversity initiatives, and by Latisha Brown, Campbell Middle School’s science coach, the program was designed as a long-term recruiting project for the university. It was originally conceived by Dr. Johnson and Dr. Margaret Smith, Volusia County Superintendent of Schools. The highlight of the awards ceremony will be the Embry-Riddle Presidential Certificates of Excellence, presented by Dr. Johnson and Eric Von, who is a representative of the Experimental Aviation Association (EAA) and an Embry-Riddle alumnus. Edward Rapoano, 12, and Sahdyah Morgan, 11, who have both achieved straight A’s at Campbell Middle School, will receive the Presidential Certificates of Excellence, which are accompanied by EAA Air Academy Scholarships. The two students will receive free admission to the EAA’s Air Academy Young Eagles summer camps to be held in June in Oshkosh, Wis. (for more information, see www.youngeagles.org/programs/airacademy/yeschool.asp). Embry-Riddle and a donor from Campbell Middle School will cover the two students’ airfare. “It’s been exciting to collaborate with Embry-Riddle and Campbell Middle School in making it possible for students to attend summer camps, and we’d like to continue this partnership in the future,” said Bob Campbell, EAA president. “We want to take every opportunity to encourage students to explore math and science topics, hopefully also sparking their interest in aviation and aerospace careers.” The 49 winners of the Certificate of Achievement will receive free admission to a week-long specially designed Embry-Riddle Aerospace Camp, created by Campbell Middle School teachers and Dr. Detore-Nakamura, that will be held in June at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach campus. The Embry-Riddle Aerospace Camp Scholarship winners are Christian Adams, Hannah Apking, Kala Baxter, Leonard Bennett, Brielle Black, Hannah Brick, D’Kwona Brooks, Matthew Brown, Brandy Bullard, Evan Butts, Tesia Cain, Justin Campbell, Hunter Carter, Jonathan Cochrane, Eva Cordova, Clay Courington, Selbe Dittman, Tyrie Emmanuel, Ty Juan Gaddy, Erica Gobaira, Audreanna Griffin, Kayla Henry, Kelly Hergert, Brandon Hill, Lakeisha Howard, Amber Howell, Miranda Johnson, Nicholas Klarich, Cameron McDougal, Zyrina Mincey, Sahdyah Morgan, William Netzhimer, Sara Nolen, Jewel Pitter, Edward Rapoano, Jordan Roberts, Electra Barrs Richards, Thomas Richardson, Jaylen Rix, Nolan Rooney, Kyra Stokes, Charles Strapp, Ian Thomson, Silas Toomer, Richard Turner, Adahli Villega, Kevon Williams, Raechell Williams, and Donald Woods. The Aerospace Camp will be taught by Embry-Riddle students and staffed by several Campbell Middle School teachers, covering aerospace-related topics in math, engineering, physics, aviation, and chemistry, and concluding with a graduation ceremony. The middle-school students will conduct hands-on science activities, tour Embry-Riddle engineering labs, and learn about physics at Daytona International Speedway’s Daytona 500 Experience. Campbell Middle School science coach Latisha Brown explained that the criteria for selecting the summer camp participants was very competitive. “All of the students wrote a persuasive essay that was used to describe why they should be chosen to participate in the Embry-Riddle Aerospace summer camp,” she said. “They then had to receive a recommendation from their math and science teacher, have good conduct and attendance, and express a genuine interest in math and science, with at least a C average in those two classes. These are our best students.” The criteria for the EAA flying camp participants was more challenging, Brown said. The students were required to have at least a 3.8 GPA each grading period, write a persuasive essay, receive a recommendation from their math and science teacher, and express a genuine interest in the sciences. Dr. Detore-Nakamura of Embry-Riddle has earmarked funds from her diversity-initiatives budget for additional Campbell Middle School programs this fall. She will also continue to fund an aerospace afterschool club at Cypress Creek Elementary School in Port Orange that has a majority of female participants; she directs the club in tandem with Cypress Creek teachers Liz Clayton and Shari Watkins. Dr. Detore-Nakamura hopes to provide funding for additional Aerospace Clubs in Volusia County. Throughout the past year, more than 100 Embry-Riddle students helped out at Campbell Middle School and at Cypress Creek, including volunteers from Navy ROTC, the National Society of Black Engineers, the All-Women’s Mini-Baja Team, and the Society of Women Engineers, among others. Embry-Riddle faculty also assisted. “All of our research suggests that reaching students, especially girls and underrepresented students, before middle school is paramount to increase and to maintain their interest levels in math and science. Embry-Riddle programs like our Campbell Middle School project, our GEMS (Girls Exploring Math & Science) Camp, Rocket Days, our elementary Aerospace Club at Cypress Creek, Women in Math Day, and Women in Aviation Day are all geared to reaching young women and minorities early,” said Dr. Detore-Nakamura. “We want girls and minority students to know that they are the next generation of scientists, engineers, aviators, and astronauts who will make the next great discovery and they will be the ones to reach Mars. We want them to know that they can begin that next giant leap for humankind at Embry-Riddle, the leader in aviation and aerospace education.” For more information, contact Dr. Joanne Detore-Nakamura at (386) 226-4914 or detor6ee@erau.edu. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu. |
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