STEM Flight Following™
STEM Flight Following™ can help you transform your excitement into real STEM and Aviation career steps.
After you finish your first STEM Flight Mission, you may wonder, "What's next?" Your STEM Flight Following™ path is unique to you and the goals you want to accomplish. Let us help you stay on course and achieve your dreams.
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"Flight Following" is a commonly used aviation term that means maintaining contact with specified aircraft for the purpose of determining en route progress. In STEM Flight Following™, we can help you on your journey.
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The resources on this page can help you find ways to keep connected to your STEM Flight experience, and use it as a launching pad for your career development. Here, you can explore STEM careers, find scholarships, connect with mentors, and explore college and vocational courses of study.
Career Exploration
Explore exciting STEM career resources from NASA
JASON Learning provides free STEM Career exploration webinars and workshops.
Scholarship Opportunities
Flight Scholarship Info is a great website to start your search for national and local scholarships for flight training.
The Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI)
is a program providing scholarships and professional development opportunities directed at furthering (STEM) education in students from underrepresented communities.
Find STEM enrichment opportunities on the NAPE website. NAPE is focused on issues of educational access, equity, and diversity in STEM education.
Search Pathways to Science to find STEM Internships, Summer Camps and more- many with scholarship opportunities.
STEM Enrichment Opportunities
Flight Schools
Contact info@stemflights.org to learn more about our partner flight schools in your area.
Use the AOPA directory to explore flight schools around the country.
STEM Post-secondary and Vocational Education
Contact info@stemflights.org to be connected to local educational programs in your area.
Learn to code with these free resources from Google.
Code.org provides everything from one hour coding workshops to full length courses- all are free.
Flight Simulators
Try your hand at some high quality Flight Sim programs to improve your skills as a pilot.
Commonsense.org recommends over 30 high-quality resources to help you develop your engineering skills.
Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) provides a free 3 week summer engineering program.