Manitoba Aerospace People Plan

Career Awareness Activities

AAIM Day | Career Trek | Wincube

Aerospace & Aviation in Manitoba (AAIM) Day

Starting in 2007, each year approximately 650 Grade 6 students take part in AAIM Day. The focus is on these students because the Grade 6 science curriculum includes a module on Flight. The day’s events are designed to introduce the young students and their teachers to the concepts they are learning in school as well as to the city’s thriving aerospace and aviation industries.

This mini symposium is designed to let students participate in hands-on activities that focused on four major aspects of the aerospace and aviation sectors: Repair/Overhaul, Manufacturing/Composites, Space and Flight.

Feedback from the students indicates that learning about this in school can be confusing but having experienced the activities through a hands-on approach makes the science much easier for them to understand.

The educators involved have commented on the whole event as being very positive and that it complements their teaching of Flight as part of the Grade 6 science curriculum and they eagerly express their interest in having their future classes attend year after year.

AAIM Day was an idea conceived by Manitoba Aerospace Human Resources Coordinating Committee (MAHRCC) who partnered with several other aerospace related companies and educational organizations to make the project happen.

The partners include representatives from:  StandardAero, DND-17 Wing, Tec Voc High School, Manitoba Aviation Council, Career Trek, Magellan Aerospace, Boeing Canada, Women in Science & Engineering, Manitoba Association of Rocketry, and our hosts Red River College - Stevenson Campus  

WinCube

WinCube is a unique satellite project involving high school students and undergraduates from various disciplines at the University of Manitoba. Working together, the students will design, build, program and control a satellite based on the CubeSat model.

The satellite will be launched on board a modified Russian intercontinental ballistic missile and the students will be able to access their scientific experiments and control the satellite through a Winnipeg based ground station for the duration of the life time of the satellite (approximately one year after launch).

The students are also given the opportunity to get their amateur radio operators license so they can work at the ground station in order to communicate with the WinCube and other satellites.

The high school students are completing high altitude balloon launches to get experience in launching and tracking.  There is a summer Space Adventure Camp held annually for students in grades 9 – 12. 

For more information visit:  www.wincube.ca/index.html | www.cubesatkit.com/