Explore job FROM THE DESK OF OUR opportunities here. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

3D MAKERSPACE NEWS Several years ago, I became aware of the important role that the Future of

Flight Foundation plays in our community and industry. A colleague of mine at invited me to attend a planning session of the Exhibit Committee.

From there on, I continued to support Jeff Van Dyck the foundation with their exhibits and brand image. I had been supporting the Dreamliner program putting the final touches on the Dreamliner Gallery. Boeing Customer Relations asked me to function Here are some modified prints of chain as a loaned executive to the foundation to explore its mail fabric by thingiverse user dfyler, facility as a delivery center for the first Dreamliner that made on our machines! was being launched by ANA.

Maker Monday class hours are 1 to 5 I continued my 20-year career at Boeing as a creative p.m. each week. Maker Monday is director, responsible for Experiential Branded Design. free. Participants can expect to pay Eventually I was asked to join the board of directors and $1.50 per gram for PLA plastic, if served as chair of the Exhibit Committee and as board they choose to print a 3D creation. president.

Beginning Feb. 5, IoF members with Fast forward to today, and I've been appointed to lead the membership card will get $5 free Institute of Flight as its new executive director. In my first printing per workshop, and 10% off few days on the job, I became reacquainted with the staff all printing. of professionals who run the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour. They do an amazing job of Contact Kyle at supporting the Boeing Tours while offering a host of [email protected] with education programs that are attended by students from questions about Maker Monday. the community and around the world.

They also support events and the conference center facilities in this unique one-of-a-kind destination. The WEEKEND Boeing Tour plus the education and events center have made the Future of Flight the number-one attraction in FAMILY WORKSHOPS Snohomish County. Their attention to detail with an emphasis on customer-focused service has been rewarded by a near-perfect rating from the influential TripAdvisor.

Come join us for a Makerspace session, a Weekend Family Workshop or the popular Family STEAM Night that is scheduled for March 14.

Thank you and the IoF board of directors for your vote of confidence.

Imagine what you can build with Jeff Van Dyck Magformers Executive Director [email protected] Attend Weekend Family Workshops and fold paper airplane designs, program Ozobot robots or build structures in the Aerospace Gallery NEW YEAR, NEW PLAN with Legos and Magformers. By Terry LaBrue, Director of Marketing and Tourism Activities rotate weekly so you are invited to return frequently to try With a new calendar hanging in my office, I'm reminded them all. that indeed this is a new year. You may have noticed the

sharp, new uniforms that our visitor services Workshops are free with Gallery or representatives are sporting behind the ticket counter. And Boeing Tour admission, and for IoF we also have a few new faces on the VSR team to assist members. Sessions are scheduled our FoF guests. every Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 to 3 In February, a new element in the Aerospace Gallery will p.m. in the Flightline Room. F emerge. Local fine artist and Boeing employee Jason Otto's or more information, email Educator canvases of industrial expressionism will begin an Shannay Kamman impressive art show. He has previously exhibited his vivid at: [email protected] or acrylic paintings in the local area and on the pages of call Education Director Gabriella Frontiers, the Boeing Company magazine. Stop by for a Fainberg at 425-438-8100 x243. view of industry at its best.

Later this year, we'll be conducting some spring cleaning, STRATO DECK ACCESS which means the public will have an opportunity to bid on a collection of vintage airplane models that are now excess. The selections range from a C4 airliner in 1960s Mexicana livery to a 1970s Concord SST in TWA's iconic red stripes. The latter plane was never built, so it is undoubtedly one of a few models ever created for the airline that stopped flying in 2001 when it was acquired by American Airlines.

Photo: Joe Kunzler More unique aviation-related items in the spring sales event will be listed online by the Institute of Flight, so stay The world-class Strato Deck, one of tuned for details. They are sure to fly off the shelves. the top plane-spotting locations, is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. January has brought crowds to the Future of Flight Aviation daily. For updates and early Center & Boeing Tour. In addition to an impressive winter closures, check our season, ticket sales are up in the double digits in the first Announcements page. -Ed. few weeks of the month. Thanks to all our readers who took advantage of our holiday tip: Take the Boeing Tour.

Last, a new version of the fall marketing plan will hit the airways this spring at SeaTac International Airport. The 24 large, electronic displays near baggage claim will beshowing animated ads for the Future of Flight to the millions of travelers and greeters who pass through each year. Watch for them when you are there.

I hope to see you in 2018.

Education

INSTITUTE OF FLIGHT TO HOST 6TH-ANNUAL FAMILY STEAM NIGHT Community to celebrate hands-on evening of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics

Families with school-age children are invited to attend the 6th-Annual Family STEAM Night, on Wednesday, March 14 Support the Boeing Tour with a from 5:30 - 8 p.m. at the Aerospace Gallery of the Future handsome bumper sticker like the of Flight. one Kim Kimmey is holding. Just email your request With hands-on demonstrations in science, technology, to [email protected] and we will engineering, arts and math, Family STEAM night brings send one to you, free (within the aerospace and STEAM-industry partners together with U.S. and Canada). Photo: Jody elementary and middle-school students. The goal is to Hawkins expose students in a fun way to a wide range of applied sciences and the arts.

"The concept behind the highly respected STEAM program BOEING CAREERS created by the Institute of Flight is to ignite passion for the TOUR RETURNS future of aerospace," according to Gabriella Fainberg, education director at the institute. The newly updated Boeing Careers Tour program is now available for For information and registration: booking. Aimed at groups of fifth- https://www.futureofflight.org/fsn2018 through twelfth-grade learners, the tours promote interest in working in # # # business, engineering, information technology, manufacturing or INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WELCOMED TO security units within The Boeing Company. INSTITUTE OF FLIGHT EDUCATION PROGRAMS The multi-disciplinary educational Hundreds of foreign youths from five continents program offers support for learners as well as educators. The schedule The Institute of Flight offers a wide range of education for the tour includes a 30-minute programs for learners of all ages from local, national, and welcome session plus review of the international groups. Educational tourism, however, has five Boeing career paths. Hosted by become an increasingly large segment of the traveling the Institute of Flight, this segment public and parallels the increase in visitors from Asia to the previews the one-and-one-half-hour Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour. That factory tour focused on careers of number surpassed 50 percent of total visitors this past employees at the factory and is led summer. by a Boeing Tour guide, in addition to a stimulating 30-minute wrap-up It is not surprising to receive inquiries for education activity. programs from such distant lands as China, India,

Denmark and Australia. Along with the unique Boeing Tour Educators are provided with a 60- of the Everett factory, this combination of technical and page activity guide to help them hands-on experiences is not available anywhere else in the lead three activities before the tour world, according to Fainberg. and two activities afterward. These activities prepare students with an Some education groups participated in the popular two- understanding of core ideas and hour workshops produced by the IoF, with curricula such as vocabulary that will allow them to Drone Zone, Folded Flight, or 3D Printing. Others make the most out of their visit participated in multi-day custom programs that involved while connecting the activities with in-depth STEAM content and special guest speakers. the group's objectives and the specific learner's career plans. "In addition to our local school programs, we also host a Please note that this program is only number of school groups from Canada," Fainberg added. available from 8:30 to 11 a.m. on "They totaled more than five hundred learners." Tuesdays and Wednesdays through March 2018, -Ed. AND SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ANNOUNCE DESTINATIONS FOR NEW AT THE INSTITUTE SERVICE FROM Air carriers to join United Airlines with daily departures to West-Coast markets Our philosophy: Institute of Flight will never deny a child* participation Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines recently joined because of an inability to pay. United Airlines in naming the West Coast cities that will be linked this fall when new commercial air service begins Thanks to the generous support of from Paine Field-Snohomish County Airport. Alaska will our donors and sponsors, the IoF offer 13 nonstop departures to eight cities every day with can fulfill its goal to inspire young "premium service and low fares." Dallas-based Southwest people to explore careers in STEAM Airlines, the world's largest low-cost air carrier, plans on fields. Find our financial assistance flights to Denver and San Francisco with request form here. equipment, larger than the regional jets proposed by Alaska and United. *under age 18 From its headquarters in Chicago, United Airlines announced in August that it would fly regional jets to its Denver and San Francisco hubs from Paine Field. SIGN UP FOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS Alaska's service on Embraer ERJ 175 will connect Paine Field to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orange County, Did you know that a phone call or Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose. email can allow school classes and According to the airline, flight frequencies for each youth groups to participate in destination along with departure and arrival times will be amazing aerospace experiences at announced later in 2018, subject to government approval. the FoF? Programs such as the Drone Zone, Robotics, and more can "This is an amazing, historic occasion for Alaska Airlines be arranged. If you are interested in that once again shows our ongoing commitment to the these and other classes, download State of and the Pacific Northwest," said the IoF Education Planning Guide. Andrew Harrison, Alaska Airlines' chief commercial officer. "We're proud to become the anchor tenant of the new You are also invited to check out terminal at Paine Field." the education pages of our website. In the coming days, the information will be refreshed with new photos and updated facts and dates. CASCADE WARBIRDS OFFERS AVIATION SCHOLARSHIPS Signing up for educational programs with the Institute of Flight is easier Cascade Warbirds, an than ever. Call the IoF registrar, organization promoting the Tatyana Klepanchuk, between 7 and restoration, preservation, 9 a.m. on weekdays, or email her operation and public display of at [email protected]. She historically significant military can answer your questions, help you aircraft, is offering scholarships select an exciting program for your for private pilot ground school group, and coordinate logistics that with introductory flights to will ensure your experience is inspire young people to become everything you hoped for. the aviation pioneers of tomorrow.

Cascade Warbirds has teamed with Galvin Flight Service at , , to provide scholarship recipients with tuition, books and supplies, plus two introductory instructional flights. The ground school portion comprises classroom lectures, visual presentations, group discussions, practical exercises, and field trips during 55 hours of training. Classes generally meet two weeknights per week for two and one-half hours and one Saturday per week for four hours over six weeks. Successful completion of this private pilot ground school will qualify a student to take the FAA private pilot written exam.

This scholarship is available for students between the ages Did you know that you can shop and of 16 and 21 when the award is granted. This year we are support the Institute of Flight at the same time? Keep smile.amazon.com awarding eight scholarships, each valued at in mind when you shop year 'round and $1,125. Visit www.cascadewarbirds.org/scholarship.htm for Amazon will donate a portion of the sale the application. The deadline to apply is February 28, directly to us. Make sure to select 2018. Institute of Flight as your choice for donation. THE AEROSPACE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM

The Aerospace Ambassador Program has truly taken off since its inception in February of last year. We now have more than 25 ambassadors who actively volunteer and provide an enhanced exhibit experience to Aerospace Gallery visitors.

While the Ambassador Program focuses primarily on the International Space Station Destiny Module* exhibit, the IoF is in the process of expanding the crew to encompass The Future of Flight Aviation Center & all of the exhibits at the Future of Flight. Boeing Tour is a proud recipient of Trip Advisor's Certificate of Excellence for the sixth year straight. As we continue through the slower tourist season, our ambassadors are beginning to undertake additional projects such as researching gallery exhibits, developing training materials for the Ambassador Program, and even creating new video compilations for the Destiny video kiosk.

Visit the Destiny Module every day between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and meet one of our amazing ambassadors.

If you wish to join our team and share your passion for aerospace, storytelling, or STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math) education, contact us: The crew from the Flying Heritage & [email protected] or 425-438-8100 x253, Combat Armor took advantage or visit FutureofFlight.org/aerospaceambassadors. of a slow, rainy day in January to visit the Future of Flight Aviation Center & *on loan from the Museum of Flight Boeing Tour. It's nice to host our neighbors at Paine Field to a fun experience. - Ed.

Please help us spread the word. Forward this newsletter to a friend.

MUKILTEO USERS GROUP - SALESFORCE (MUGS)

If you are a Salesforce user, or have an interest in Salesforce, please join us at our monthly M.U.G.S. meetings, hosted by the Institute of Flight. The group meets the last Wednesday of each month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at The Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo. This FREE event includes a light lunch for all attendees who RSVP. Our next meetings are scheduled for January 31 and February 28. Please RSVP to Gary Hauff at [email protected] or (425) 438-8100 x218.

The Center of Excellence publishes aerospace and manufacturing industry-related job opportunities in Washington. This link offers job seekers a unique filter to find positions that meet their training or experience and provides employers with a more focused workforce. To view jobs, go to coeaerospace.com/jobs.

The Institute of Flight, an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, opened the Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour on December 17, 2005. In its 12 years of operation, the Future of Flight has attracted more than 3 million visitors. In addition to operating and managing the Future of Flight, the institute embraces the important role of stewardship of an active and healthy education program, special events, aviation center exhibits, and financial assistance for needy schools and nonprofits.

VISION: Igniting passion for the future of aerospace. The Institute of Flight, in partnership with The MISSION: Institute of Flight inspires and nurtures multi-generational local and global Boeing Company and visitors through immersive hands-on exhibits, tours, and aerospace education Snohomish experiences. County, serves as operator of the Future of The Institute of Flight is proud to partner with The Boeing Company and Snohomish Flight Aviation Center & County. Under the leadership of the county, the Future of Flight facility is partially Boeing Tour funded by the Snohomish County Public Facilities District. The Institute is governed by a 24-member board of directors, with representation from The Boeing Company and Snohomish County.

For more information please call 425-438-8100 or visit www.futureofflight.org

Marketing and Tourism Director Communications Manager Terry LaBrue, APR Toni Olson 425-438-8100 ext 223 425-438-8100 ext 240 [email protected] [email protected]

Events Director Membership Associate Manager (private events) Christine Russell Melvin Givens 425-438-8100 ext 225 425-438-8100 ext 247 [email protected] [email protected]

Institute of Flight, 8415 Paine Field Blvd, Mukilteo, WA 98275 SafeUnsubscribe™ {recipient's email} Forward this email | Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by [email protected]