CAP offers national standards-based educational products, including a secondary textbook, Aerospace: The Journey of Flight, and the middle-school-level Aerospace Dimensions. Teachers can get free classroom materials and lesson plans from CAP by joining CAP’s Aerospace Education Membership program.

At Civil Air Patrol, the volunteer auxilliary of the U.S. Air Force, we’re helping develop tomorrow’s aerospace workforce. Through our award-winning MARS program, we offer teachers:

• Free national standards-based aerospace education materials (for homeschoolers, too!)
• Awards, such as AEX, for schools that adopt aerospace education into their curricula
• Grants available from Air Force Association to incorporate aerospace into the classroom
• Low-cost aerospace textbooks for grades 6-12
• Aerospace education newsletters full of useful information
• Orientation flights in powered aircraft
• Aerospace-oriented summer workshops
• Aerospace education speakers and resources nationwide
• The nation’s premier aerospace education conference for teachers (more information here)

We offer students (who are CAP Cadets):

Click here for information about Cadet Programs.

• Orientation flights
• Encampment opportunities
• Scholarships
• Career Exploration Activities

CAP’s aerospace education programs are nationally recognized:

• Recipient of the Air Force Association’s Vandenberg Award, theNational Aeronautics Association’s Brewer Trophy, and the Space Foundation’s Education Achievement Award.
• Website awarded USA TODAY’S Best Bet for Educators