Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships Annemie Viaene Committee Chair AE and JMK District 27 for

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Amelia Earhart Fellowship 3

Who was Amelia Earhart? 4 Amelia Earhart was born in Atchinson, Kansas in USA on 24 July She had an education in medicine at Hyde Park High School, at Columbia University. In 1921 she flew for the first time as a passenger, and since then had one single goal: to become a pilot. She immediately enrolled for flight lessons in los Angeles and bought her first airplane 6 months later. She joined the Zonta Club of Boston in She was the first woman to fly solo, non-stop, coast to coast across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1932 and continued to try and break her own records. She was the first woman to receive the National Geographic Society Gold Medal. During a flying tour around the world in 1937 along equator, she got missing during a record flight of 4110 km to Howland Island situated in the Pacific Ocean East of Australia, on July 2 nd 1937 and was finally declared officially dead in Several theories run around about what happened during her last flight. Since 1938 Zonta International is awarding the AE fellowship annually to 35 women pursuing PH.D/doctoral degrees in aerospace related sciences or aerospace-related engineering.

Why Amelia has become legendary 5 She disappeared during a world tour on July 2 nd 1937

Amelia Earhart is inspiring many people… … she is still in the news today 6 Press Article of 30 October 2014 : The 6th expedition of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is going out to seek for the Lockheed Electra airplane of Amelia Earhart in the vicinity of Nikumaroro atol in 2015.

One of the fellowship winners who presented at Orlando 2014 convention 7 Laura Suarez Henderson TOPIC: Modeling, Estimation, and Analysis of Man-made Space Object Tracking and Identification Eligible Candidates : Women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degree who demonstrate a superior academic record in the field of aerospace- related sciences or aerospace-related engineering Annual selection process - submission candidates November 15 th Prize : US$10,000 for the best 35 candidates at Zonta International level Clubs may reward their candidates Second application is possible Application happens directly at ZI level with help of the local ZI club ( no intermediary step at Area or District level)

Amelia Earhart Fellowship Calendar September- October 2014 : Promotion by our Zonta Clubs of the availability of the AE fellowship at the relevant universities or institutes November 2014: Candidates for the upcoming selection round must submit their dossier by 15 november to the Amelia Earhart district Committee Chair ( and the International Amelia Earhart Committee Chair January 2015 : Amelia Earhart Month ( AE day is 11 January 2015) : please celebrate in your club, area, district February 2015 : Meeting of the Zonta International AE committee to select the 35 fellows May 2015: Announcement of the selected 35 Fellows June 2015 : Biographies of the selected 35 fellows are made available September – October 2015 : Districts with selected fellows will celebrate them, handover the prize, give them the AE wings and certificate at their district conferences 11 January 2016 : AE Day is a second opportunity to celebrate the selected AE fellows, if they were not celebrated at the district conference May/June 2016 : If the AE fellow graduates in June 2016, convince her to join Zonta. 8

Call for Amelia Earhart Fellowship candidates All clubs should be made aware of the deadline of 15 November 2014 for submission of AE fellowship candidates. 9

ZI Amelia Earhart Fellowship Promotion(AE) All useful supporting materials ( explanation, list of universities, criteria, brochure, forms,…) can be found on the public website Clubs can use these materials to promote the AE fellowship and assist candidates to apply Clubs can invite AE fellows as speakers ( list of the fellows is available on the website) 10

Our Amelia Earhart Flyer 11

Our Amelia Earhart Flyer 12

The list of AE fellows of The Amelia Earhart Fellows of 2014 Invite them as speakers in your club !

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