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The Aviation Academy Of the Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies announces their Commencement Ceremony:
Saturday, October 25th 8:00 am until Noon
Plummer Elementary School
4601 Texas Ave, SE Washington, DC 20019
Continental Breakfast starts at 7:30 am
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Thirty Five Youth from Maryland, Minnesota, New York, and Washington, D.C. will be celebrated and given recognition for having sacrificed their summer of hanging out; to have fun engaging themselves with activities with YIMA to help improve on their Math, Reading, and Science Skills.
The public is invitedto come and celebrate our youth and to learn more about the Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies (Aviation Academy) that has opened two mentoring sites in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
The Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies (Aviation Academy) is a non profit mentoring program for at-risk youth ages 8 years old to 19. The youth in this academy attended ground and flight school with their adult mentors all summer long. They received hands on experience flying aircraft and simulators, learned about life and leadership skills, but most of all had lot’s of fun.
At the ceremony graduates will speak on their experiences with the program and share photos. The graduates will be the host and hostess of The Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies Thirteenth Annual Community Spiritual and Health Workshop. They will give presentations along with their Honorary Mentors on topics in Aviation Science Engineering, Law Enforcement, Psychology, Pediatric Medicine College Preparation, Safety, Spiritual Healing, and on How to Build Positive Relationships and Bonding with a Responsible Adult.
- Bishop Larry Sturgis, D.D. (Temple of The Living God) Worldwide Ministries will deliver a fiery invocation and message to the graduates.
- Keynote Speaker is a living legend - Tuskegee Airmen (USAF) Retired Lt. Col. Lee Archer , an Honorary Mentor and Advisor of the YIMA.
- Our Jr. Keynote Speaker is Ms. Zaire Dunnigan of Capitol Heights, Maryland, is thirteen years old, a pilot in training with the YIMA Aviation Academy and a 4.0 Student.
- A helicopter fly-in is scheduled for 10:00 AM by the Metropolitan Police Department
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Delaware State University will speak on their Aviation Science and Engineering Schools
This program is being dedicated to the Memory of three YIMA Honorary Mentors: The Late Tuskegee Airman (USAF Retired) Lt. Col. Charles W. Dryden who also authored the book ("A-Train Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman"); Journalist and Ebony Fashion Fair Model Patricia Wilson Crutchfield; (North West Airline Pilot (Retired) Elmer Phil Schacht.
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| On February 26, 2008, at 4:30-6:30 p.m., the Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies (YIMA) will be hosting a Black History Month presentation and book signing with a "World Living Legend", USAF Ret. Colonel Charles E. McGee. |
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