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Help Kids Explore STEM: Support AMCAI’s Free Programs
A nationwide effort to expand access to hands-on youth STEM and help keep AMCAI curricula free for member schools. Initial goal: $50,000. Beneficiary: American Center for Aviation Innovation, Inc., EIN 99-2049468.
What it supports
- Aviation, aerospace, maritime, environmental and technology STEM labs
- AMCAI Cadet Corps
- Scholarships and participation assistance
- Field trips
- Curriculum development
Operating now
- Two AMCAI-sponsored STEM Labs at American High School Academy
- AMCAI AeroClub: flight simulation and aviation STEM
- Two Code Clubs set up with Raspberry Pi Foundation support
Still in development
- AMCAI Cadet Corps
- Skill Passport short courses and badges
- Floating STEM Lab (Sea Fox awaiting an outboard repair)
- Flying STEM Lab (seeking a usable trainer aircraft)
- 1947 Navion restoration
GoFundMe processes gifts made there for AMCAI as the beneficiary charity. You can also give directly below.
AMCAI charges students nothing. That only works because people fund it.
Not for the simulator, not for the drone lab, not for the discovery flight where a sixteen-year-old takes the controls for the first time and decides what they are going to do with their life. Every student who comes through an AMCAI program does so at no cost to their family.
Any amount helps
Most of what we need is not glamorous: exam fees, lab consumables, safety equipment, fuel, tools. Gifts of $10, $25, $50, $100 or any other amount all go to work quickly.
Other ways to help
- Donate equipment or an aircraft. Aircraft, marine equipment, tools, parts, lab hardware, laptops. See what each project needs on our projects page.
- Sponsor a project. Cash, equipment, services or employee mentoring, directed at the project you choose. Email admin@amcai.org.
- Volunteer, or introduce us to someone. See volunteering.
If your gift is for a particular project
Please tell us. Our online checkout cannot record which project you had in mind, so if you are giving toward the Floating STEM Lab, the Flying STEM Lab or the Navion restoration, email admin@amcai.org and we will record the designation properly rather than leave it to guesswork.
Who you are giving to
American Center for Aviation Innovation, Inc. is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity. EIN 99-2049468. Florida charitable registration CH77296. Our IRS determination letter and details of our governance and financial oversight are on our About & Accountability page.
Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law; your eligibility and the value of any benefits you receive can affect deductibility, so please consult your own adviser.
Ready to Launch Their Dreams ?
Your gift invests in tomorrow’s innovators, aviators, mariners and community leaders. By supporting AMCAI and ACMI, you help students gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to take flight — both figuratively and literally — and pave the way for a future defined by discovery, collaboration and bold thinking.
American Center for Aviation Innovation, Inc. (AMCAI) is a registered 501(c)(3) public charity, doing business as the American Center for Maritime Innovation (ACMI) for its maritime work. Your gift goes to AMCAI and supports both programs. We depend on the generosity of donors, partners, sponsors and affiliates who share our belief in the transformative power of experiential education. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law; your eligibility and the value of any benefits you receive can affect deductibility, so please consult your own adviser.
Registration Number: CH77296
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