AE MONTH: CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF AMELIA EARHART January is Amelia Earhart (AE) Month for Zonta International. It is a time for Zonta International and our clubs to celebrate the life and legacy of famed aviatrix and Zontian, Amelia Earhart. It is also an opportunity to raise funds for the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Fund, which has supported more than 1,600 women from 75 countries in reaching their educational and professional goals in the aerospace and space sciences fields since 1938, making the Amelia Earhart Fellowship program Zonta’s longest running service project. This year’s AE Month was no exception. Despite COVID restrictions, Zonta clubs found unique and inspiring ways to honor Amelia Earhart while recognizing and celebrating the accomplishments of her contemporaries – our Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellows.
Zonta Clubs of Chelsea and North Shore and Malden celebrate Amelia Earhart Fellows On 21 January, the Zonta Club of Chelsea and North Shore and the Zonta Club of Malden in Massachusetts hosted a virtual celebration to recognize Rachel Morgan and Cody Paige, 2020 AE Fellows studying aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rachel and Cody received their Zonta AE wings pins, certificates and flowers. Left: Amelia Earhart has long been a hero and inspiration of mine and, as a child, my dad would take me flying in little Cessnas and encouraged me to follow in Amelia’s footsteps. I got my private pilot’s license in 2016; this is me flying a Cessna-152, using my dad’s David Clark headset.—Cody Paige Right: In this photo I am standing next to the Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission (DeMi) satellite right before it got delivered to launch. I worked on modeling and aligning the optical payload and leading integration and environmental testing for this project. —Rachel Morgan
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