HUNTSVILLE — Lauren Brown, of Milton, recently attended 13-Day Programs at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Official Visitor Center.
The two-week-long educational program promotes science, technology, engineering and math while training students and adults with hands-on activities and missions based on teamwork, leadership and problem solving.
Brown spent 13 days in a realistic aviation training program. She and crew had to survive, escape, resist and evade during Aviation Challenge’s expanded Top Gun competition.
Aviation Challenge opened in 1990 in Huntsville, Alabama, and uses fighter pilot training techniques to engage trainees in real-world applications of STEM subjects. Students sleep in barracks designed to resemble military bays.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Milton resident completes STEM-based aviation training