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Presents TAKE FLIGHT 2023
Overview
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival (Wings) is held every two years at Hood Aerodrome in
Masterton, Wairarapa. Wings attracts around 25,000 visitors over 3 days (Friday to Sunday),
and is the biggest air festival in the North Island.
In 2019, Wings ran its inaugural STEM programme (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics) targeted to school-aged youth. It was a huge success. Adapting to the
feedback received from educators to incorporate creativity as well as careers and vocational
aspects, we added the 'A' (Arts) to make it a STEAM programme and have also developed a
careers and vocational offering. The programme has grown to become a permanent feature
of the Wings groundside experience - now called Take Flight.
Take Flight runs for all three days of the festival. On Friday (practice and arrivals day for
aircraft) we hold a Schools Day, and invite every local school - in 2019 over 4000 teachers
and students attended Schools Day (from years 0 to 13), and in 2021 over 4500. The
combination of aircraft flying overhead, and hands-on interactive, engaging activities and
demonstrations provides an authentic experience to remember.
On Saturday and Sunday, Take Flight is offered to all festival ticket holders in a less
structured way, and our activity providers have autonomy over how they deliver their
activities and engage with young people. This provides opportunities for the whole family to
be involved and encourage conversations around study and career choices.
Take Flight adopts a broad interpretation of aviation or flight, and incorporates aerospace,
ballooning, skydiving and astronomy into the programme, to name a few.
In 2023, we look forward to launching Take Flight and offering even more experiences and
opportunities for youth to learn about the creativity and innovation involved in STEAM, and
the wider touch points of everything flight and aerospace.
aims of the programme
WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE
to inspire young people to consider a STEAM related course of study or career,
to provide educational opportunities to support schools and the wider community
to promote flight and aerospace
to seek ways to improve accessibility to STEAM education opportunities, particularly
for ffemales,
emales, Māori and Pasifika students, and rural schools
to strengthen the purpose and future viability of our air festival and related industries
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What is the programme about?
From small group, quiet workshops, to large scale noisy demonstrations
and stage shows - Take Flight caters for several modes of delivery.
TAKE FLIGHT STATIONS
Take Flight Stations are usually
provided in marquees, and are highly
interactive activities within a defined
space. These activities may be trying a
simulator, VR or AR equipment,
operating a small robot, or trying 3-D
printing.
Suited to groups of around 10 - 25
TAKE FLIGHT FREESTYLE
Freestyle activities are outside, and more
‘demo’ than interactive - but still very
engaging, and suited to larger audiences.
Get up close or inside an aircraft, electric bus,
massive tractor, balloon or parachute
envelope, watch a glider being de-rigged or
some drone racing.
Experts will be encouraging audience
engagement and questions as you wander
around, but if you just want to watch, there is
plenty happening in the air, and loads of
amazing aircraft to look at.
Talk to hangar owners who have brought
their aircraft out, and find out what it's like to
spend your time at an aerodrome, and to own
or work on aircraft.
TAKE FLIGHT SMALL STEAM
Our Take Flight Small STEAM area
is for new entrants to Year 3. These
play-based STEAM activities are
under shade, with water provided.
This provides valuable activities for
this age group and less pressure to
adhere to schedules and walking
across a large site.
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TAKE FLIGHT STAGE
Stage shows, demos and short presentations
will be offered during the three days by a wide
variety of experts in aviation, space, science and
other STEAM related areas.
The stage is outdoors, and shows or
presentations are professional & engaging, with
space for several hundred people in the
audience.
AND YES, OUR PARTNER
NANOGIRL LABS IS LOCKED IN
FOR 2023!
TAKE FLIGHT WORKSHOPS
Workshops are limited in numbers. Most are
2 or 3 hours long, and in a more quiet space so
that students get maximum value out of the
expert teaching on offer. On Schools Day,
limited spaces in workshops are allocated
evenly across schools .
On the weekend, these can be booked by
members of the public for a charge.
Nominated senior students have
opportunities to support these workshops in
an area that interests them.
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Take FLIGHT years 10 to 13
2023 sees the launch of 'senior students-only' aspects of the programme.
As these senior students contemplate their transition out of school and into the
flight path of their future, these new aspects of the programme provide an
engaging way to delve deeper into opportunities and hear others' experiences.
TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
Tertiary Education providers will engage with senior
students about pathways to study, subject selection, campus
life and degree/qualification options
BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY ORGANISATIONS
Organisations, industry associations, local and
central government, and individual businesses from
a vast range of sectors will be on hand to engage with
senior students. These representatives will share
information about both the well known and the lesser
known opportunities that exist for young people who
have a passion, a talent or just an initial interest in a
particular area.
MENTORS AND YOUTH ALREADY IN
EMPLOYMENT or STUDY
Senior students will hear from young people who have
already embarked on an opportunity or pathway, and find
out about their experience, their journey and their advice.
This is a great chance for senior students to engage with
people they can relate to,
LIGHTNING TALKS
Series of short, focused, engaging talks designed to spark
interest and inspire senior students to find out more about
an area they may be interested in. From industry
professionals to recent school leavers themselves.
SENIORS ONLY WORKSHOPS
Workshops available for selected senior students to extend
an existing talent or passion.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN EVENT MANAGER
Nominated students interested in Event Management get to
experience working with the event team at Wings 23.
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GET INVOLVED
HOW TO GET A PIECE OF THE WINGS STEAM PROGRAMME
Sponsor or donate
It wouldn't be possible to deliver Take Flight for free to our region's schools without the
generous support of businesses within the region.
By sponsoring the programme or elements of it, not only will your organisation have access
to promotional opportunities but you'll also be a key enabler for a meaningful experience!
Get in touch if you would like to find out more about the programme and the opportunities.
Provide activities
Pass on your expertise, guidance and knowledge to tomorrow's engineers, technicians,
programmers, designers and creative directors, pilots and more. Providers participate for a
variety of reasons: to fulfil their education or community outreach aims, to promote their
own organisation or training programmes, or out of a desire to ‘give back’ or inspire youth to
achieve or enter a pathway to an aviation or other STEAM career.
Opportunities exist to recover costs on Saturday and Sunday.
Sign up to be a Wings Take Flight volunteer or mentor
Help us out on Schools Day or on the weekend. We have plenty of roles from helping get
students safely onto the site, to helping with workshops or activities, sharing your
knowledge, mentoring, or helping students find where they need to be. And if you are an
engaging presenter, consider providing a lightning talk or presentation.
GET IN touch
Interested in being
involved or finding
out more?
Email Chris at
chris@wings.org.nz
or phone on
0274469329
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FEEDBACK
FROM SCHOOLS
It was such a fantastic day (again!). We loved having the chance to go again and I know that
every child had a fab time.
An active, learning day for our students and staff.
The children really enjoyed the hands on activities, and all of the planes flying
A fantastic day and totally worthwhile for our students as was stimulating and something
many wouldn't be able to experience and get up close to
LOVED LOVED LOVED it - thanks soooo much for hosting us - would LOVE to go again.
Highlight of our kids year so far
This is a real highlight for us and we love having the opportunity to take the whole school
Thank you for the huge amount of work, it was a fantastic learning experience
Great day out. Will definitely choose more of the workshops for the students to participate in
next time
FROM STEM ACTIVITY PROVIDERS
As my first time participating in a program like this I wasnt sure what to expect, but seeing
the smiles and faces of about 500-600 kids that climbed up on the Harvard and got to see
inside a Warbird made it all worth it. I would very much like to be a part of this again and now
I know how I could make it even better.
We got really good value out of the event and were privileged to be such a big part of the
STEM day. We have had good engagement from the region following and overall, it was a
great event!
We're very much looking forward to a continued involvement in the event, and the STEM
program especially. We're already thinking up more innovative and interesting ways to
presents our sports, and to give people more of a hands-on experience, especially young
people.
Without exception it was parents saying to children “we really need to go now” as opposed to
children looking bored and tugging their parents away!
The obvious engagement of adult and child alike and the lovely way in which it encouraged
engagement between them
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thank you
SCHOOLS DAY IS SCHOOLS DAY IS DELIVERED
DELIVERED IN WITH THE ONGOING
COLLABORATION WITH SUPPORT OF
THANK YOU TO OUR 2019 & 2021 STEM PROVIDERS
AEROSPACE EDUCATION NZ ASTROBIOLOGY NETWORK
AIR NZ AVIATION INSTITUTE NZ CADET FORCES
AIR NZ/AIR NZ WINGS GROUP NZ JET MODELLERS ASSOCIATION
AIRBUS NZ POLICE
CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY RED ARROWS
CONNECTED RNZ NAVY
DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY AGENCY RNZ AIR FORCE
DRONEFLYERS ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY
EARTHCARE ENVIRONMENTAL ROYAL AIR FORCE
ENGINEERING NZ SCHOOL TO SKIES PROGRAMME
FABLAB MASTERTON SKYDIVE WELLINGTON
FIRE AND EMERGENCY NZ SWOOP AERO
FLY-SIM TERRY LONGLEY (HARVARD)
HOUSE OF SCIENCE WAIRARAPA THE VINTAGE AVIATOR LIMITED
KAPITI DISTRICTS AERO CLUB TRANZIT COACHLINES
LIFE FLIGHT TRUST VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON
LOCKHEED MARTIN
VR LOUNGE
MASTERTON LIBRARY
WAIKANAE AIR SCOUTS
MODEL FLYING NZ
WAIRARAPA MODEL AERO CLUB
MASSEY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF
WAIRARAPA BALLOON FESTIVAL
AVIATION
WELLINGTON HANG GLIDING &
MUSEUM OF NZ TE PAPA TONGAREWA
PARAGLIDING CLUB
NANOGIRL LABS
WELLINGTONNZ
NZICPA
WELTEC
NZ ARMY & DRONE TEAM
YOUNG EAGLES
NZ ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN IN
YOUTHGLIDE NZ
AVIATION
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