Week-Long Sessions Begin This Summer

Move over Air Academy, EAA's residential summer camps for older students. There's a new game -- er, camp -- in town... and your younger sibling, whom you thought you could leave at home, can now climb onboard a new aviation day-camp experience.

Take off for the new aviation day camp program is June 18 for youngsters entering grades two through five.

It's a week of nonstop excitement that includes five full days of hands-on aviation and science projects, challenge activities, museum and airport tours, and other aviation experiences, according to EAA's Dick Knapinski.

The program is accredited by the American Camp Association and operated under the same educational guidelines as EAA's residential camps.

"We are excited to begin these EAA Aviation Day Camps this summer, as we know the fascination with flight often begins at a young age," said Bob Campbell, EAA's director of museum and residence education. "We designed the camps to be a week of nonstop excitement where fun and discovery are combined for an experience that young people can find nowhere else. For the price of a plain day camp, young people can enjoy a real 'plane' day camp."

Complete information is available at the FMI link below, or by calling 920-426-6139.

The EAA Air Academy, based at the EAA Aviation Center in Oshkosh, was established in 1984 as a way to bring the excitement and possibilities of aviation to young people.

FMI: www.youngeagles.org/programs/airacademy