Academy at Shawnee students test their mechanical skills
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Students at the Academy at Shawnee were at Bowman Field on Wednesday to put their mechanical skills to the test.
The students took apart a Cessna airplane and then worked together to put it back together.
Those students are in the aviation program, which gives them real world experience after practicing on a simulator.
“I’m privileged to be one of the people who took it apart,” student Andrew Willis said. “And back to Shawnee because I know kids, for years, are going to be able to work on this and learn the same thing that I have learned so they can go on and pursue aviation later in life.”
Academy at Shawnee already teaches aviation but plans to add airplane maintenance to the curriculum.
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