Tue, Feb 20, 2007
3,200 Participants Attended Three-Day Event
The
18th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference broke its
own records for attendance, exhibitors and just plain fun February
15-17 at Walt Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort. The
conference had 3,200 participants and 49 excited scholarship
winners by the end of its gala banquet ceremony
Saturday night.
In a surprising move, Continental Airlines opted to hire more
than just its scholarship winners -- offering an additional
10 scholarship applicants pilot jobs, too. The final
scholarship tally was a little more than $385,000.
Speakers at the event included former astronaut and CEO of the
Museum of Flight in Seattle Bonnie Dunbar; Virgin Galactic's Will
Whitehorn; USAF Thunderbird pilot Maj. Nicole Malachowski; Jane
Middleton, Finance Director, Rockwell Collins, UK; Capt. Betty
Uhrig, Chief Pilot, Chevron Global Aviation; Lisa Piccione, Senior
Vice President, National Business Aviation Association; and as the
keynote banquet speaker, USN Rear Admiral Wendi Carpenter.
Inducted into the Women In Aviation Pioneer Hall of Fame were
Canadian Major Deanna Brasseur, American Iris Cummings Critchell
and, posthumously, Frenchwoman Marie Marvingt. All cut paths and
created opportunities for the women who followed them into aviation
and aerospace careers.
If you missed this year's conference, the 2008 Conference will
be held at the Town and Country Resort in San Diego, CA from March
13-15, 2008. WAI will lock in your conference registration at
this year's rates if you sign up now.
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