Women in Corporate Aviation Award $50,000 Scholarships

Women in Corporate Aviation’s NBAA convention tradition is to hold a top-notch luncheon each year to celebrate its scholarship winners in style. This year the luncheon was the venue for awarding a large chunk of the nearly $80,000 in scholarship funds that the organization has solicited in 2015 from corporate aviation sponsors.

“I am grateful to our leadership team, sponsors and volunteers because we could not have raised this much without them,” said Stacey Kotrla, president of Women in Corporate Aviation (WCA).

Aviation scholarships went to Audeen Bashita, Stephanie Morriss, Ciara Peterson, Dawn Sharp, Sue Rusk, Nicola Hubert, Adamo Spring, Morgan Garlinge, Lauren Sherrick, Sandra Jimeson, Rachel Borsa, Nadine Meichsner, Kate Keogh, Christine Zavodnik, and Christine Young. Scholarships ranged in value from $1,122 for a MedAire two-day training course to $22,000 for CJ3 initial flight simulator training at CAE Simuflite.

WCA plans to offer more scholarships at the 2016 International Women in Aviation Conference next March in Nashville, Tennessee. More information and applications can be found at www.wca-intl.org/scholarships.