By Bernard Ford

A feature on iFLY in the Dallas Morning News piqued our interest in the organization and the indoor skydiving experience. What better way to introduce middle-school students to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) than through indoor skydiving? After a little research, we learned that the Dallas iFLY location launched a pilot education program that sought to connect students to the STEM in their indoor skydiving experience. The education program began with a lecture on the various factors that impact flight such as terminal velocity, drag, gravity, resistance, etc. The program featured students making predications on how objects would fly in the wind tunnel, a variety of demonstrations from the iFLY instructors and a session on calculating terminal velocity. When the education program concluded, each student got two one-minute flight sessions to experience the STEM firsthand.

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