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As you can imagine,
Take Flight
for Kids
is an incredibly expensive event. But we are changing lives of
kids, so it's worth every penny. If you can help, please donate
online. $10 sponsors a familiy for free lunch. Every dollar
helps! Thanks! Note: All donations
are 100% tax deductible thru the Valley Medical Center Foundation
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Stay tuned for more
details.
We still have applications in for Saturday September 25, 2010
for NASA Ames' Moffett Federal Airfield
Mountain View / Sunnyvale, California
We should know exact date by mid July 2010, so check back then.
Approximately 10,000
attendees are expected. About 300 exhibitors will be with us on
Sept 25, 2010.
Exhibitor
Categories
- Accessible
Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Aviation
- Bus
- Category
- Clothing
- Community
- Education:
College/Secondary
- Education:
High School
- Education:
Primary/Middle
- Employment
- Entertainment
- Food
- Government
- Health
- NASA
- OTHER
- Retail
- Robots
- Science
- Special
Needs
- Sponsor
- Transportation
- Youth:
At Risk
- Youth:
General
- OTHER
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Preliminary
Agenda (subject to change)
- 8am:
Gates open for setup.
- 10am:
Gates open to participants, First flight school starts.
- Flight
schools & airplane tours every 30 minutes
- Static
aircraft displays all day.
- Demos
from 300+ nonprofit organizations and vendors all day.
- Live
Entertainment all day
- 11:30am:
Food & BBQ
- 12
noon:
Break for Speeches and Thank-yous
- Live
Entertainment all day.
- 1:00pm:
Flights continue
- Flight
schools & Flights: every 30 minutes.
- Live
entertainment continues
- 4:00pm:
Gates close
- 6:00pm:
Cleanup complete
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Previous Events....
Take Flight for Kids & Day in the Sky.
We
did it again: Day in the
Sky 5, Watsonville
April 17, 2010
No EAA Young Eagle's
flights, but the 2000+ attendees had a ton of fun checking out the
exhibits and dancing to the awesome music!~
We
did it again: Saturday August 7, 2009: San Jose Reid Hillview Airport,
Take Flight for Kids
We
served 2400 free lunches, made about 200 flights and flew about 600
kids with disabilities and their family/friends, saw 200+ exhibitors
strut their stuff, listened to 3 awesome live bands and watched 8 other
performance groups, and generally had a grand old time!
See
the amazing photos courtesy of Pat Lewis
See
the San Jose Mercury article (front page of
Sunday Living, above the fold with 2 awesome photos)
See
the San Francisco Chronicle SFGATE article
THANKS
to all the astonishing volunteers who made this all happen. Wow
what a dream team crew of volunteers we had!
See
you next year. We'll keep you posted on plans for the future.
Soft
Landings to All!
Dean
McCully & the Crew of Take Flight for Kids
Take Flight for Kids, August 9, 2008 was
a riproaring success,
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