TAA Director, Anne O'Brien, greets Airport Manager Shant Megerdichian.
Lt Col Porter, L A AFB Stem Director (l), discusses the program with Torrance Councilmember Geoff Rizzo and Mayor Pat Furey (r).
Event volunteers learn how the MGL electronic avionics operates.
Torrance Councilmember, Milton Herring, talks with volunteers before the students arrive.
Students arrive.
Anne lays out the schedule for the day's activities.
Monica Campos, from Robinson Helicopter Co, describes how their R22 aircraft is controlled.
Monica demonstrates the Robinson R22 cockpit layout.
Monica answers many questions about the Robinson helicopter.
Volunteer Don Shaw tells students about real-world application of robotic technology to autonomous ground and air vehicles.
Students learn how older analog flight instruments work.
Volunteer Robert Beckwith shows them the new electronic flight instruments.
This is how modern electronic flight instruments are used in new aircraft.
Electronic instruments require lots of wiring. Here students learn the basics of building wiring harnesses from volunteer Bianca Mettey.
A very popular lesson in the basics of rocketry. . .
. . . as students vary payload weight, propulsion impulse, and take-off angle to hit a target.
All of the students participated in ground tours of the Collings aircraft.
Lunch time! Volunteers dig into their pizzas.