{"id":12224,"date":"2019-09-24T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=12224"},"modified":"2019-09-24T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:56:17","slug":"envoy-sponsors-international-girls-aviation-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/09\/24\/envoy-sponsors-international-girls-aviation-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Envoy Sponsors International Girls in Aviation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 21,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wai.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women in Aviation International<\/a>\u00a0(WAI) chapters around the world hosted the fifth annual \u201cInternational Girls In Aviation Day\u201d event to attract more young women to the aviation and aerospace communities. Envoy is proud to have been a sponsor of the WAI North Texas Chapter Dallas area event, where we had our pilot recruiters, as well as other team members, on-site to assist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12228 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GIAD19-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the envoy team pose for a photo at GIAD19\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event was held at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightmuseum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Frontiers of Flight Museum<\/a>, where girls ages 8 to 16 years old were able to meet other women who work in the field, including pilots, engineers, and air traffic controllers. Attendees\u00a0were introduced to\u00a0the opportunities for working in the aviation and aerospace industry during a career panel where they heard from experts. Additionally, girls were able to experience the fun of aviation with hands-on STEM activities throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was incredibly inspiring to be among these future\u00a0aviators,&#8221; said Manager of Air Operations Programs and Outreach\u00a0<strong>Martin Rottler<\/strong>. &#8220;We are proud to support the efforts of Girls in Aviation Day, as this group\u00a0represents the bright future ahead for our industry and for Envoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 3,000 girls took part in the Dallas event, making it one of the largest Girls in Aviation Day events in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 21,\u00a0Women in Aviation International\u00a0(WAI) chapters around the world hosted the fifth annual \u201cInternational Girls In Aviation Day\u201d event to attract more young women to the aviation and aerospace communities. Envoy is proud to have been a sponsor of the WAI North Texas Chapter Dallas area event, where we had our pilot recruiters, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":41991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}