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Embry-Riddle Teams Up With Women in Aviation, International to Crown Best Paper Airplane Designer

Savannah, GA September 4, 2009 – The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide Campus in Savannah in collaboration with the Southern Wings Chapter of Women in Aviation International is sponsoring a unique event at the Savannah Jazz Festival. The paper airplane making contest was established to crown the best designer of paper airplanes between the ages of 0 to 16.

The airplane design contest will take place during this year’s Youth Jazz Festival at the Savannah Jazz Festival on September 27, 2009 starting at 2:30 p.m. The contest will be broken down into four age groups: 0 to 3, 4 to 7, 8 to 11, and 12 to 16 years of age. Embry-Riddle and the Women in Aviation’s Southern Wings Chapter brainstormed together to create an idea that would entice attendees of the Savannah Jazz Festival to participate in the Youth Jazz Festival, as well as sharing in their joint admiration, appreciation and commitment toward the aviation and aerospace field.

Southern Wings is a chapter of Women in Aviation International established for women who are currently involved in aviation or aerospace, or are interested in any aspect of flight. The Southern Wings chapter began in large part due to the efforts of an energetic, forward-thinking group of women employed at the Savannah, GA., headquarters of Gulfstream Aerospace. They were soon joined by other women in the area who worked in various aviation or aerospace businesses, as well as those who are interested in becoming involved in some aspect of flight. The group is comprised of intelligent, energetic and talented members: an Embry-Riddle administrator and faculty members, several owners of aviation businesses, Gulfstream administrative team members, highly talented aircraft assembly specialists, flight instructors, and pilots.

For more information on Embry-Riddle’s Savannah Campus or the Southern Wings Chapter of Women in Aviation International, please contact Jen Furlong, Director of Academic Support, at savannah.center@erau.edu or 912-355-0644.

Southern Wings is a chapter of Women in Aviation International which is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) organization dedicated to providing networking, education, mentoring and scholarship opportunities for women (and men) who are striving for challenging and fulfilling careers in the aviation and aerospace industries. For more information about Southern Wings and/or WAI, call 912-661-2620 or visit our website at www.orgsites.com/ga/southernwings.

Embry-Riddle Worldwide began in 1970 as a branch of the Daytona Beach Campus in Ft. Rucker, Alabama, with 20 students, primarily military working adults. Since then, the program has become one of the largest off-campus, regionally accredited colleges in the United States, with over 45,000 alumni. The Worldwide organization educates more than 27,000 students through classroom, online, or hybrid undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering, educating more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs. Doctoral programs in aviation and in engineering physics are pending approval by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) for the University to offer programs at the doctoral level. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Prescott, Arizona, and Daytona Beach, Florida, through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 campus centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.