Share your love of aviation by...
Partnering * Donating * Volunteering
Do you have access to great raffle prizes?
What about supplies for the activity tables?
Would you be more interested in providing food & drinks?
What is your specialty and how would it help make this a better day?
Email Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com with your ideas.
Feel free to join us at our Monthly planning meetings - 4th Saturday of the month - 10 AM at the Buchanan Field Concord Airport Clubhouse
200 Buchanan Field Rd
Concord, CA 94520
and online at:
https://meet.goto.com/MartinMob/giad
You can also dial in using your phone.
Access Code:
165-078-869
United States:
+1 (408) 650-3123
Would you be willing to speak on a topic related to aviation or aviation careers for 15-30 minutes?
Have you & your friends built an aircraft? Are you a Reno Racer?
Are you an experienced pilot, mechanic, air traffic controller, flight attendant, customer service agent, or other aviation position?
Do you love astronomy? What is your aviation passion?
10 AM - Available
10:30 AM - Available
11 AM - Brody Waren - EAA 393's 2023 Ray Aviation Scholarship (RAS) winner!
11:30 AM - Available
12 PM - Available
12:30 PM - Panel of Women in Aviation Careers
Are you a pilot? Have an aircraft? Would you be willing to share your love of aviation by coming to Buchanan Field and giving static tours of your plane?
Aircraft tours are an all day activity for the girls - 9 AM to 2 PM - so if you could come for an hour that would be wonderful!
No flights on this day...
but you are welcome to add an aerial tour gift certificate to the raffle!
Do you have any branded items you would like to add to the Activity Kits for the Girls to use at the event and take home?
We could also use help covering the cost of the Swag Bags. This year WAI supplied 50 for free and the remaining 100 bags were $10 each. Please use the donate button below or email Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com
Hosted by:
Women in Aviation International San Francisco - Bay Area Chapter
Maps & Charting your Course
Mount Diablo Pilots Association
Buchanan Field Clubhouse
Pilots & Aircraft Tours
Contra Costa County Airports
https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/4694/Airports
Buchanan Field
Isabelle Soloaga
Photographer & Videographer
Hodge Flight Services
Flight Simulator and
Introduction to Aviation Course
(4 hours with Certified Flight Instructor)
Yes Aviation Services, LLC
http://yesaviationservices.com
Dope & Fabric Aircraft Repair
Guild of Quilters of Contra Costa County
Dope & Fabric Aircraft Repair
AWAM Chapter 16 Bay Area CA USA
Dope & Fabric Aircraft Repair
Sheetmetal Skills
Critchfield Mechanical, Inc.
Sheetmetal Skills
Experimental Aircraft Association of Concord, CA Chapter 393
Soaring Succulents
Pilots & Aircraft Tours
Zipline
Drones
US Coast Guard will be in attendance
www.pacificarea.uscg.mil/Our-Organization/District-11/
Pilots & Aircraft Tours
The Ninety Nines -- Bay Cities 99's Chapter
Pilots & Aircraft Tours
United Airlines Employee Volunteers
https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/company/responsibility/global-community-engagement.html
Every $1 helps us make this an amazing day for all of the girls that attend!
This year WAI covered the cost of 50 Activity Kits - the remaining 100 were $10 each - would you please help us by donating a bag or 5?
Planning meetings are the 4th Saturday of the month 10 AM in person at the Buchanan Field Clubhouse - 200 Buchanan Field Rd Concord, CA 94520
June 22, July 27, & August 24
If you aren't able to attend in person please join us online at:
https://meet.goto.com/MartinMob/giad
You can also dial in using your phone.
United States: +1 (408) 650-3123
Access Code: 165-078-869
Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts:
Sewing Aircraft Stuffies - see https://gqccc.org/event-5621306 for more information.
Sheet metal work - We will need help cutting, filing edges, and drilling holes for the Sheet Metal Skills Activity.
If you are interested in helping with any of these please email Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com.
Sunday 9/22/2024 - 8AM to 4PM Clubhouse Cleaning
Cleaning - sweeping, mopping, cleaning 2 restrooms, wiping down tables, snagging cobwebs with long duster, dusting blinds, etc.
Friday 9/27/2024 - 3-9 PM GIAD Preparation Day
(last year we were there until 6:30/7PM)
Set Up - taping posters together, taping signs up, putting tablecloths on tables, possible food prep, organizing kitchen, moving plastic folding tables and chairs, prep and stage outside tables and chairs, and other similar things.
Possible Volunteer Training - would you like to know how to: teach the activity at your table? learn to marshal small aircraft? provide the safety briefing?
And anything else we can prepare in advance of tomorrow!!
DAY OF:
Saturday 9/28/2024 - 6:30 AM to 4 PM - Girls in Aviation Day!
6:30 AM Set up crew arrives and starts erecting pop up tents, placing the outside tables and chairs, placing outside signage
7 AM Breakfast, Snacks & Drinks Set Up
7:20 AM Registration Volunteers arrive - organize your table and the name tag tables... make sure to know location of safety briefing area to direct families to after the girls create their name tags.
7:30 - 11 AM Registration table is open
7:40 AM - 11:20 AM Safety Briefings - Activity Kits (Swag Bags) are handed out at the end of each Safety Briefing so we know which girls are eligible for the sheet metal skills activity and walking the ramp and seeing the aircraft.
9 - 9:30 AM Welcome to GIAD (Dignitaries)
8:45 AM - 2 PM Marshalling Team & Escort Teams are needed on the ramp - Coast Guard should be arriving by 9 AM and other aircraft should be too. Girls are allowed to start touring the aircraft as soon as their pilots are ready for them. Coast Guard has been requested until 2 PM so we may need escorts until 2 PM - depending on the girls and their families.
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Activity Tables are Open
Do you have an idea for other activities? would you like to lead an activity? Let Keri know at Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com
10 AM to 1 PM - 6 speaker sessions
10 AM Open
10:30 AM Open
11 AM RAS Scholarship Winners
11:30 AM Open
12 PM Dr. Maureen Powers
12:30 PM Women in Aviation Panel
if you are interested in participating on the 12:30 pm panel please email Keri.Martin@AWAM16.com.
1 PM Raffle and Closing (Dignitaries) - We will need help setting up the raffle prizes and running the raffle on the day of the event. We will have many of the prizes the day before and we can set up a table during Prep time to help make Girls in Aviation Day less hectic.
2 PM Girls adjourned.
2-4 PM Clean up and pack up.
Please download and share the Help Needed Flyer with your friends and family!
We removed the blue background - so this is perfect to print on colored paper!
2024-06-24 Help Needed No background (pdf)
DownloadAWAM Chapter 16 Bay Area CA USA
a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Charity
84-2428893
Copyright © 2024 AWAM Chapter 16 Bay Area CA USA - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by GoDaddy
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.