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Scholarship/Work-Study Type Opportunity
We are exploring the notion of exchanging "work-time" for instruction/
flying time at our club. The idea is to offer this to younger folks who show an interest in soaring/aviation, and would be a good worker. Part of the goal is to assist with coverage on the field - especially the wing-running role. I've heard of other clubs doing this, and would like some details and thoughts on how others have implemented such a program and any advice. If you would like to share details or discuss this, feel free to email me directly. Thanks, John W |
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, John wrote: We are exploring the notion of exchanging "work-time" for instruction/ flying time at our club. The idea is to offer this to younger folks who show an interest in soaring/aviation, and would be a good worker. Part of the goal is to assist with coverage on the field - especially the wing-running role. I've heard of other clubs doing this, and would like some details and thoughts on how others have implemented such a program and any advice. If you would like to share details or discuss this, feel free to email me directly. Thanks, John W hi john, You're right, there are a number of Juniors Programs around the country. GBSC started theirs maybe 20 years (?) ago. Until about two years ago, the board capped enrollment at about ten, raised it recently to fifteen. For some of the details of our program, see http://www.soargbsc.com/ -- About -- Junior Program. I think our club is pretty happy with the program. On the field, the Juniors are a highly professional lot, eager to work with the SFO, logger and pilots to make the ops run efficiently and safely. Over the last four or five years, the program has produced a dozen or solo pilots and six PPGs. Four graduates are building careers in aviation two of whom have gone on to advanced ratings in gliders and SEL (including CFI), another is a freshman at USAFA, another is an aviation major in college. That's pretty cool and we all feel pretty good about that. Something not clear to me, however, is the ROI to the club, indeed even the need to determine an ROI. Certainly the Juniors provide field help and that's worth something. Ideally, I would personally like to see Juniors become eventual dues paying members. (Maybe that should just be regarded icing on the cake?) While the graduates go on to great things inside and outside of aviation, their participation in the club drops to very low numbers once they finish as Juniors. I think this at least partially comes from the relatively high cost of soaring (even at half-priced student dues) and the relative poverty of college students. If a goal is to bring Juniors into the club or soaring LONG term, then the gap between Junior-hood and income-producing adulthood should probably be bridged. So last year we got winch. So far, three PPG Juniors/ex-Juniors have signed up to get winch endorsements this season. Will let you know how THAT works out. :-) Like John, I'd be interested in hearing how other clubs view their Juniors programs, how they define effectiveness and so on. cheers, --ken |
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On Apr 25, 9:31*am, ken wrote:
In article , *John wrote: We are exploring the notion of exchanging "work-time" for instruction/ flying time at our club. *The idea is to offer this to younger folks who show an interest in soaring/aviation, and would be a good worker. Part of the goal is to assist with coverage on the field - especially the wing-running role. *I've heard of other clubs doing this, and would like some details and thoughts on how others have implemented such a program and any advice. *If you would like to share details or discuss this, feel free to email me directly. Thanks, John W hi john, You're right, there are a number of Juniors Programs around the country. GBSC started theirs maybe 20 years (?) ago. Until about two years ago, the board capped enrollment at about ten, raised it recently to fifteen. For some of the details of our program, seehttp://www.soargbsc.com/-- About -- Junior Program. I think our club is pretty happy with the program. On the field, the Juniors are a highly professional lot, eager to work with the SFO, logger and pilots to make the ops run efficiently and safely. Over the last four or five years, the program has produced a dozen or solo pilots and six PPGs. Four graduates are building careers in aviation two of whom have gone on to advanced ratings in gliders and SEL (including CFI), another is a freshman at USAFA, another is an aviation major in college. That's pretty cool and we all feel pretty good about that. Something not clear to me, however, is the ROI to the club, indeed even the need to determine an ROI. Certainly the Juniors provide field help and that's worth something. Ideally, I would personally like to see Juniors become eventual dues paying members. (Maybe that should just be regarded icing on the cake?) While the graduates go on to great things inside and outside of aviation, their participation in the club drops to very low numbers once they finish as Juniors. I think this at least partially comes from the relatively high cost of soaring (even at half-priced student dues) and the relative poverty of college students. If a goal is to bring Juniors into the club or soaring LONG term, then the gap between Junior-hood and income-producing adulthood should probably be bridged. So last year we got winch. So far, three PPG Juniors/ex-Juniors have signed up to get winch endorsements this season. Will let you know how THAT works out. :-) Like John, I'd be interested in hearing how other clubs view their Juniors programs, how they define effectiveness and so on. cheers, --ken Mark Keene discusses the TSA Youth Program at the 2003 Northeast Regional Meeting. http://www.soaringchapters.org/semin...ion2_youth.wmv (~31m) TSA youth discuss their program, 2006 SSA Convention http://www.soaringchapters.org/conve.../tsa_youth.wmv (~42m) Ask one of these. From the Mar 2010 issue of Hangar Flying http://www.ssa.org/files/member/Hang...March_2010.pdf quote The top ten clubs with regard to SSA Youth Memberships a Caesar Creek Soaring Club 32 Central Indiana Soaring Society 10 Evergreen Soaring Club 9 Greater Boston Soaring Club 12 Greater Houston Soaring Association 19 Harris Hill Soaring Corporation 31 Mid-Atlantic Soaring Association 35 (USNA program effect?) Sky Soaring, Inc 18 Soaring Club of Houston 9 Texas Soaring Association 16 Valley Soaring Club, Inc. 26 unquote The Michael Wallace Soaring Scholarship deadline was March 15th. The Bultman Youth Scholarship postmark deadline is April 30th. The Cadet Youth Scholarship postmark deadline is June 30th (See http://www.ssa.org/myhome.asp?mbr=38...w=blog&id=2027) Now is the time to plan for a Kolstad Award application. http://www.coloradosoaring.org/ssa/ssay/ycom.htm Our chapter discounts joining fees and dues by 50% for Youth. Seven currently. Frank Whiteley |
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