The current reporting period is "3rd Quarter, 2009"
Aerospace Program
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) promotes and supports aerospace education, both for its own members and the general public. CAP educational programs help prepare American citizens to meet the challenges of a sophisticated aerospace society and understand its related issues.
CAP offers national standards-based educational products, including a secondary textbook, Aerospace: The Journey of Flight, and the middle-school-level Aerospace Dimensions. Teachers can get free classroom materials and lesson plans from CAP by joining CAP´s Aerospace Education Membership program.
CAP Near Space Program
Exploration of Near Space is the goal the Civil Air Patrol Near Space program. Using High Altitude Sounding balloons, participants design, build, launch, track and recover experiments into Near Space ( over 100,000 feet).
Students design and build experiments, gaining experience in areas such as weather, electronics, math, program management, radio electronics, space environments, etc as they build Near Spacecraft to withstand an environment that can reach below -50 degrees and atmospheric pressures lower than on Mars. They have taken incredible pictures from the edge of space.Click here for CAPnSPACE website
RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS AND FOR AEROSPACE EDUCATION OFFICERS
CAP offers national standards-based educational products, including a secondary textbook, Aerospace: The Journey of Flight, and the middle-school-level Aerospace Dimensions. Teachers can get free classroom materials and lesson plans from CAP by joining CAP´s Aerospace Education Membership program.
Exploration of Near Space is the goal the Civil Air Patrol Near Space program. Using High Altitude Sounding balloons, participants design, build, launch, track and recover experiments into Near Space ( over 100,000 feet). 
Students design and build experiments, gaining experience in areas such as weather, electronics, math, program management, radio electronics, space environments, etc as they build Near Spacecraft to withstand an environment that can reach below -50 degrees and atmospheric pressures lower than on Mars. They have taken incredible pictures from the edge of space.