AAF inspires female future leaders in STEM, from shop floor to top floor.
- Reduce gender disparity in Aviation, Aerospace, Marine & Defence, and other STEM-based fields
- Raise awareness of the limitless opportunities available to women in high technology fields
- Ensure our target audience includes women of all ages, and all ethnic, cultural, educational and financial backgrounds
- Ensure the teams sent to deploy our events, projects and programs are diverse in gender, age, and ethnic, cultural, educational and financial backgrounds
- Create mentoring partnerships between industry, agency and education partners and our target female audience
- Work with industry, agency and education partners towards improving recruitment techniques, integration practices and retention strategies for women
- Create a means of tracking interest and repeated participation in our events, projects and programs, and determine a meaningful correlation with a reduction in gender disparity in our target industries
- Continue growing our signature annual The Sky's No Limit - Girls Fly Too! events by at least 33% annually
- Establish a series of in-house, online application/registration databases for our various events, projects and programs
- Conduct the first in a series of experience events under
Operation: This IS You! by October 15, 2017
- Launch Project STEM Girl By March 10, 2018
- Enlist the support of education departments/ministries, Indigenous, ethnic, cultural and community groups to encourage members' participation in our free events, projects and programs
- Establish and cultivate relations with industry, agency and education partners to expand financial support for our events, projects and programs in order to keep them free for our target audience
- Establish and cultivate similar relations with US and other International counterparts, working together towards a mutual goal of reducing gender disparity in our target industries
