A group of middle school students will get a chance to fly over Wichita this week to mark the end of their mentoring program.
The Flying Challenge program ends Thursday at the National Center for Aviation Training.
The program matches Airbus and Wichita State University engineering students with 80 students at Brooks Middle School in Wichita.
The students participate in a robotics lab, a paint lab, a radio-controlled airplane demonstration and this flight over Wichita,
Flying Challenge is sponsored by the Airbus Corporate Foundation and coordinated by United Way of the Plains. It is designed to inspire students who are at risk of not graduating from high school or pursuing college.
