January – Amelia Earhart Month
Celebrate AE Month this January
Help women get their wings.
Use the materials below to celebrate Amelia Earhart month this January. Honor Amelia by sharing information about our AE Fellowship to women in aerospace-related sciences or aerospace-related engineering or make your donation today to the Amelia Earhart Fund.
Today, women remain a distinct minority in science and engineering, representing approximately 10 percent of professionals in these fields. The Amelia Earhart Fellowship program helps talented women, pursuing advanced studies in the typically male-dominated fields of aerospace-related sciences and aerospace-related engineering, achieve their educational goals. The Fellowship enables these women to invest in state-of-the-art computers to conduct their research, purchase expensive books and resource materials, and participate in specialized studies around the globe. Amelia Earhart Fellows have gone on to become astronauts, aerospace engineers, astronomers, professors, geologists, business owners, heads of companies, even Secretary of the US Air Force.
Since the program’s inception, Zonta has awarded 1,438 Amelia Earhart Fellowships, totaling more than US$8.6 million, towomen from 70 countries. Established in 1938 in honor of famed pilot and Zontian, Amelia Earhart, the Amelia Earhart Fellowship is awarded annually to women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences or aerospace-related engineering. The Fellowship of US$10,000, awarded to 35 Fellows around the globe each year, may be used at any university or college offering accredited post-graduate courses and degrees in these fields.
