MH senior accepted into Air Power Academy

Picture: Retired Air Power Col. James C. Hodges, who serves as a liaison officer for the Air Power Academy, offers Mountain Household Substantial Faculty senior Madelyn Smith with a certification of acceptance into the academy. Smith’s mothers and fathers, Jason and Stephanie Smith, accompanied her for the presentation.

Madelyn Smith, a Mountain Residence Substantial Faculty senior, has been approved into the United States Air Pressure Academy.

Smith was launched to the world of flight all through her sophomore calendar year by family members pal and flight instructor Garret Stice. According to Smith, it did not consider extensive for her to know that she wanted a job in traveling, and she also realized she would have to have to come across a put up-secondary institution that could aid these dreams.

“After lots of research, my mother and father and I resolved that the Air Drive Academy would current the most effective alternatives for me within that field,” Smith claims.

Smith’s target is to graduate from the academy with an economics degree and ultimately fly for the Air Power.

“My foreseeable future plans contain going into the flight application after I graduate,” she says. “I want to be a tanker pilot because I can fly some of the major planes whilst not always getting into the line of fire.”

Smith suggests the superior placement track classes at Mountain Dwelling Higher School, as very well as functioning with the district’s counseling staff, helped prepare her for the academy.

“My tutorial counselors have been really helpful … acquiring plenty of insight and knowledge for any concerns I have,” she says. “Throughout my college or university preparing journey, their knowledge manufactured the course of action uncomplicated and efficient.”

The Air Power Academy is situated in Colorado Springs, Colorado.