WEBVTT - Boy Scouts

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The iFLY STEM program has been around for about

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five years, but really, in the last 18 months,

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we've put the essentially the foot on the gas

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by really making sure we've got phenomenal curriculum, aligned

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with state standards, but also finding great partners.

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And that's why today we're excited to partner with

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the Boy Scouts of America

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as we build out our

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local relationships with councils all over the US.

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Wherever there's an iFLY wind tunnel, this program will

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be available, everything from Cub Scouts all the way

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up to venturing scouts to come and participate.

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My name is Jeff Jurist.

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I am the Cubmaster for Pack 2030 in Austin, Texas.

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This was an extremely exciting event.

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We brought the boys here and they were able

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to, in the classroom, learn some exciting things.

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Everybody was there to help everybody

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along, and they learned together.

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And then they watched their fellow Cub Scouts

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and they were able to cheer them on.

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So it really was, you know, compared to a lot

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of our events, it was very exciting.

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Had a lot better sign up for this than we do

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for most events because everybody was excited to go flying.

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We're excited to work with Boy Scouts because

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they, as an organization, are really hyper focused

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on creating STEM opportunities for their kids.

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And we think this is a great

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partnership because we're doing this today.

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We've flown over 60,000 kids last year.

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So combined with the Boy Scouts of

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America, we think there's a lot of

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opportunity for our organizations to work together.

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And that's why our curriculum team have worked really hard

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with their curriculum team to make sure that it really

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does line up with the Nova Award Program.