Newton Student Graduates With Honors From Aviation College

Newton MA

20 July, 2021

1:52 PM

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NEWTON, MA — A Newton student has graduated with honors from Aviation Challenge Mach III at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, a weeklong education program that promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with hands-on activities and missions. Thomas Sierra is one of nearly one million trainees who have graduated from a Space Camp program since its inception in Huntsville, Alabama in 1982. Former students include European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronauts Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, Dr. Kate Rubins, Dr. Serena Auñón-Chancellor, and Christina Koch, who set the record for the longest duration space flight by a female. The Aviation Challenge is designed for students who have an interest in military aviation and flight mechanics. They learn principles of aviation through fighter pilot training techniques and are given the opportunity to use a variant of flight simulators. Utilizing these resources, Sierra and his team ran control system and scenario-based missions and trained in both water and land survival. Throughout the week, the students slept in quarters designed to resemble military bays. According to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, students and teachers from all 50 states and almost 150 international locations have attended a Space Camp program. Anyone who is interested in training like a fighter pilot can visit www.spacecamp.com/aviation.