Hillsboro School District Weekly Hot News, May 27, 2024 - HSD Aerospace Career Day

Hillsboro School District Weekly Hot News Podcast

On Friday, May 17th, more than 1500 HSD students - including third-graders from sixteen elementary schools and eighth-graders from Poynter and Evergreen Middle Schools - participated in an Aerospace Career Day during the Oregon Air Show at the Hillsboro Airport. The event was co-created by HSD’s Elementary Career and College Pathways and the Oregon Air Show Charitable Foundation as a way to engage students in hands-on aviation, science, and engineering activities led by pilots, aviation mechanics, and jet engine engineers.

High school students in HSD’s Oregon Aerospace Careers for Everyone - or O-ACE - program, along with their teacher, Sheri Brownlie, supported participants as they dove into activities like creating Harrier paper airplanes and learning about the fundamentals of flight - including how the airfoil design keeps a plane in the air.

Students also had the opportunity to meet and speak with Air Force maintainers about the components of a jet engine; see and feel aviation mechanic tools, thanks to the PCC aviation program; and explore a Q-400 plane on tours hosted by Alaska/Horizon Air.

Many thanks to the Oregon Air Show Charitable Foundation and to Captain Chris Barber for sponsoring and facilitating the event, in hopes that students will shoot for the stars to achieve their dreams. If you would like to connect with this vision in the future, please reach out to Elementary Career and College Pathways Teacher on Special Assignment, Raquel LemusGarcia.

Our featured students are our 2024 valedictorians and salutatorians! On Tuesday, May 21st, we celebrated our eighty-three top achievers at a luncheon held at Hidden Creek Community Center. Superintendent Travis Reiman, Mayor Steve Callaway, Hillsboro Schools Foundation Executive Director Aron Carleson, Washington County Chamber of Commerce School-to-Career Director Karen Donaldson, and Board Chair Mark Watson congratulated the students on their accomplishments and encouraged them to both go off to college and have new adventures, and to consider returning here afterward to plant their roots. As is tradition, the event concluded with students sharing one piece of advice for incoming freshmen. Visit our website to read what they had to say and to see pictures from the event.

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