Career Day - Convention Exhibitors Hope To Interest Youth In Aviation

October 14, 2010 - Nearly three dozen companies exhibiting at NBAA’s 63rd Annual Meeting & Convention (NBAA2010) in Atlanta, GA are participating in a free Careers in Business Aviation Day for Georgia middle, high school and college students on Thursday, October 21.

“Every Exhibitor we’ve talked to is excited to get involved,” said Mitch Young, vice president of United States Aviation Underwriters, career day coordinator for the NBAA2010 Local Committee.

“The fact that we need young people interested in aviation resonates across this industry. It’s important that we let students know about all of the exciting careers available in business aviation.” 

Companies representing every side of the business aviation industry will make presentations to students on the Exhibit Floor and discuss scholarships, internships and career opportunities available to them.

Students will then join a team of volunteer marshals, who will move with them around the Exhibit floor to speak with participating Exhibitors. Many of the Atlanta-based companies represented on the Local Committee are sending teams of volunteers to the event and several volunteer marshals will be current students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. 

The Local Committee hopes to have 200 students registered for the career day and NBAA has launched a Facebook page to get students excited about the event. The Local Committee has also reached out to youth organizations such as the Civil Air Patrol, U.S. military ROTC groups, the Boy Scouts Aviation Explorer Program and the Girl Scouts. The committee has heard from many students who are eager to participate. 

“I met a young man working towards his Eagle Scout rank who was very interested in aeronautics,” said Young, an Eagle Scout himself who often joins review boards for the scouting rank.