Joint Venture
Plum Island Airport Joins Forces with Newburyport High School for Web Site
by Charlotte Vincent
Plum Island Aerodrome Inc. (PIA) is joining forces with Newburyport High School (NHS) to design and build its official web site!
The collaboration is a “win-win” for both NHS and PIA. NHS’ Technology Engineering Department secures a client for its web design students to gain practical, “real world” experience. PIA gains the talent and expertise to launch and maintain its web site.
Sarah Leadbeater, Technology Engineering Instructor, mobilized the student project team and is overseeing the web project for Plum Island Airport. Sarah’s name will be familiar to those of you who followed our blog coverage of NHS’ stellar performance in this year’s Real World Design Challenge (RWDC). Sarah mobilized NHS’ “A” team and functioned as the team’s teacher/coach during the competition. NHS’ “A” team became the winning team for Massachusetts and went on to take 2nd place at the nationals in D.C.
In fact the idea of joining forces first came up at the March 18th RWDC State Award Ceremony held at 2B2’s Working Museum Hangar. Alex Hasapis, PIA’s Public Information Officer, approached Sarah regarding the availability of web training for the general public through NHS. As Sarah further explored 2B2’s need, she shared her own need to find a client for her web design class. By the end of the conversation, the Plum Island Airport web site project had been initiated!
The project officially got underway with an initial information gathering and design meeting with Sarah, Alex, and yours truly. Since then, the student team has been hard at work creating alternative designs for the airport web site. The final design and content for the PIA web site will reflect and support PIA’s two fold mission, i.e.,
• To restore and preserve the historic character of Plum Island Airport
• To educate the public on the history of Plum Island Airport, as well as on its impact on aviation and the community today.
This joint venture with NHS is another example of how Plum Island Aerodrome is both bringing educational value to people and forging ties with surrounding communities.
At the end of the official project kick off meeting for the PIA Web Site, Alex and Sarah took to the skies in Alex’s Varga Kachina for a short flight “around the light houses at Thatcher's”. The flight was the unofficial inaugural for the joining of two formidable forces in the community … Newburyport High School and Plum Island Airport!
by Charlotte Vincent
Plum Island Aerodrome Inc. (PIA) is joining forces with Newburyport High School (NHS) to design and build its official web site!
The collaboration is a “win-win” for both NHS and PIA. NHS’ Technology Engineering Department secures a client for its web design students to gain practical, “real world” experience. PIA gains the talent and expertise to launch and maintain its web site.
Sarah Leadbeater, Technology Engineering Instructor, mobilized the student project team and is overseeing the web project for Plum Island Airport. Sarah’s name will be familiar to those of you who followed our blog coverage of NHS’ stellar performance in this year’s Real World Design Challenge (RWDC). Sarah mobilized NHS’ “A” team and functioned as the team’s teacher/coach during the competition. NHS’ “A” team became the winning team for Massachusetts and went on to take 2nd place at the nationals in D.C.
In fact the idea of joining forces first came up at the March 18th RWDC State Award Ceremony held at 2B2’s Working Museum Hangar. Alex Hasapis, PIA’s Public Information Officer, approached Sarah regarding the availability of web training for the general public through NHS. As Sarah further explored 2B2’s need, she shared her own need to find a client for her web design class. By the end of the conversation, the Plum Island Airport web site project had been initiated!
The project officially got underway with an initial information gathering and design meeting with Sarah, Alex, and yours truly. Since then, the student team has been hard at work creating alternative designs for the airport web site. The final design and content for the PIA web site will reflect and support PIA’s two fold mission, i.e.,
• To restore and preserve the historic character of Plum Island Airport
• To educate the public on the history of Plum Island Airport, as well as on its impact on aviation and the community today.
This joint venture with NHS is another example of how Plum Island Aerodrome is both bringing educational value to people and forging ties with surrounding communities.
At the end of the official project kick off meeting for the PIA Web Site, Alex and Sarah took to the skies in Alex’s Varga Kachina for a short flight “around the light houses at Thatcher's”. The flight was the unofficial inaugural for the joining of two formidable forces in the community … Newburyport High School and Plum Island Airport!
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