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Aviation awareness for Kenyan schools
You cannot become
what you have never seen.
EduWings brings aviation into primary and secondary classrooms — the science that holds an aircraft up, the fourteen careers behind every departure, and the exact route from a school desk in Kenya to a job in the industry.
12.4k+
Students reached
86
Schools visited
14
Career pathways mapped
31
Volunteer professionals
Students in a Kenyan classroom testing a model wing during an EduWings session
The problem
Ask a Kenyan classroom to name aviation jobs. You will hear two.
Pilot. Cabin crew. That is the average answer across eighty-six schools — 2.1 careers named, out of at least fourteen that put an aircraft in the air every single day.
This is not a failure of ambition. Students are not weighing a career as a licensed engineer and rejecting it. The option was never on the list. Exposure, not aptitude, is what decides which futures a child can picture.
- Before a visit
- 2.1
- aviation careers named
- After a visit
- 9.4
- aviation careers named
Where we have reached
Three years, eighty-six schools, one repeated moment.
The moment a student says: I did not know that was a job.
12.4k+
Students reached
Across primary and secondary schools since our first classroom visit.
86
Schools visited
From Nairobi county classrooms to schools that had never met a pilot.
14
Career pathways mapped
Each one connects school subjects with courses and career opportunities.
31
Volunteer professionals
Working pilots, engineers and controllers who give us their days off.
The programme
Aviation modules for every school level.
Seven modules for Primary & Junior learners and five for Secondary & Senior learners, with teaching times tailored to each level. Delivered by aviation professionals. Get Quotation for your school’s programme.
History of Flight
From a Kenyan sky full of birds to a sky full of aircraft in a single lifetime.
- Primary & Junior: 40 minutes
How Aircraft Fly
Four forces, one wing, and the end of the idea that flight is magic.
- Primary & Junior: 40 minutes
- Secondary & Senior: 1 hr 10 minutes
Airport Operations
A small city that must never close, running on forty-five-minute deadlines.
- Primary & Junior: 50 minutes
Navigation
Trigonometry with a destination — and a wind trying to push you off it.
- Secondary & Senior: 1 hr 20 minutes
Weather and Flight
The forecast is not a prediction. It is a decision someone has to sign.
- Primary & Junior: 40 minutes
- Secondary & Senior: 1 hr
Safety and Human Factors
Why aviation is the safest way to travel — and what every other industry learned from it.
- Primary & Junior: 40 minutes
STEM in Aviation
The answer to 'when will I ever use this?', delivered at 900 kilometres per hour.
- Primary & Junior: 40 minutes
- Secondary & Senior: 1 hr 20 minutes
Career Pathways
Fourteen careers, your actual subjects, and one line drawn between them.
- Primary & Junior: 40 minutes
- Secondary & Senior: 2 hrs 30 minutes
What students actually do
Nobody remembers a slide.
Everybody remembers the wing they built.
School-based sessions include wing-building, route-planning and airport-operation activities. After the modules, we organise a separately quoted field trip to an aviation facility with simulators. Simulator activities take place at the host facility.
Browse every activityThe Flight Lab
Four forces, one paper wing, and the moment physics stops being abstract.
Cockpit Experience
Explore a simulator at an aviation training facility.
Airport: The City That Never Closes
One aircraft. Forty-five minutes. Twelve teams who must not get in each other's way.
Sky Talk
Twenty minutes with someone who does the job. No slides.
Fourteen pathways
Explore the courses and careers behind every flight.
Not inspiration — instructions. Each pathway states the subjects, the grades, the licence, the institution and the realistic pay.
- Flight Operations
- Flight Operations
Cabin Crew
Support passenger safety, respond to emergencies and care for people on board.
Courses, requirements & opportunitiesExplore more - Engineering & Design
Aircraft Maintenance Engineer
Inspect aircraft, diagnose faults and help keep them airworthy.
Courses, requirements & opportunitiesExplore more - Safety & Control
Air Traffic Controller
Help aircraft move safely through controlled airspace and around airports.
Courses, requirements & opportunitiesExplore more - Engineering & Design
Aerospace Engineer
Apply science to the aircraft and systems that operate in the air and beyond.
Courses, requirements & opportunitiesExplore more - Flight Operations
Drone Pilot (RPAS Operator)
Operate unmanned aircraft and turn flight data into useful results.
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Why this matters
Four reasons this is worth doing properly.
You cannot become what you have never seen
Career aspiration is bounded by exposure. A student who has never met an aircraft engineer does not choose against that career — the option was never presented. We are not persuading students; we are widening the list they choose from.
The industry is growing where the awareness is not
African air traffic is projected to grow faster than the global average for the next two decades, while licensed engineers and controllers are in worldwide shortage. The jobs are arriving. The pipeline is not being built at the same speed.
Aviation makes STEM argue for itself
'Why do we learn this?' is the hardest question in a Physics classroom. An aircraft answers it in a way no textbook can. Teachers consistently tell us the effect on engagement outlasts the visit by a term.
Ambition without a map goes nowhere
Inspiration that is not followed by specifics decays within a week. Every EduWings session ends with the concrete next step — the subject, the grade, the institution, the licence. That is the part that survives.
In their words
Head teachers, students, parents and the volunteers who deliver it.
“I have sat through many careers talks. This was the first where students left holding a piece of paper with their own subjects on it and a specific thing to do about them. Two of my Form Threes changed their subject combination the following week.”
GW Grace Wanjiru
Head Teacher · Kyeleni Secondary School
“I always liked taking things apart but I thought that meant being a mechanic. Nobody had told me an aircraft has an electrical licence attached to it. I am eighteen months into the diploma now.”
AH Amina Hassan
Student · Aeronautical Engineering Diploma, Year 2
“The effect on my Physics class lasted a full term. They kept referring back to the wing they built. I have taught forces for eleven years and I have never had students argue about angle of attack unprompted.”
PO Peter Otieno
Teacher · St. Mary's Secondary School
“My daughter came home talking about becoming a pilot and I was worried about the cost. The parents' session was honest about it — and it introduced me to three careers I had never heard of that we can actually afford.”
SK Susan Kamau
Parent · Parent of a Form Two student
“I volunteered expecting to give a talk. What actually happened was ninety minutes of the sharpest questions I have been asked in years, including two I had to go away and check. I have been back four times.”
DK Dennis Kiprop
Partner · Licensed B1 Engineer, volunteer session leader
Coming up
Open days, airport tours and career fairs.
Get Quotation for your group. Attendance is subject to availability and booking confirmation.
8 October 2026
8 Oct 2026
Airport TourRegistration closedAirport Operations Tour — JKIA
Behind the terminal doors: the ramp, the operations centre and the roles that keep an international gateway moving.
- Date
- Location
- Nairobi
- Capacity
- 45 places
Details14 November 2026
14 Nov 2026
Career Fair312 places availableCoast Aviation Career Fair
Fourteen career pathways, thirty aviation professionals, and every training institution in the region under one roof.
- Date
- Location
- Mombasa
- Capacity
- 600 places
Details
Working with
- National Carrier Training Academy
- Horizon Education Foundation
- Nairobi Airport Authority
- Summit Energy Group
- Civil Aviation Authority
- Meridian Bank
- East African School of Aviation
- Savannah Telecom
Field notes
What we are learning, written down.
Research from the classroom, honest career guidance, and student stories.
- Field Notes2 min read
The Two-Career Problem
Ask a Kenyan classroom to name aviation jobs and you get two answers. There are fourteen. That gap is not a knowledge problem — it is an exposure problem, and it is fixable in an afternoon.
Meldah Magova · 18 June 2026
- Aviation Explained2 min read
The Physics Lesson That Flies
Teachers keep telling us the same thing after a visit: the students are asking better questions in Physics. Here is what we think is actually happening.
Meldah Magova · 22 May 2026
- Careers2 min read
What Aviation Training Actually Costs
Aviation has a reputation for being unaffordable. For one career that is largely true. For the other thirteen it is a myth that quietly closes doors that were never locked.
Meldah Magova · 9 April 2026
Get Quotation
Your students are one afternoon away from a career they have never heard of.
Tell us your school’s location, learner numbers and preferred modules. We will prepare a quotation for school-based teaching and a separately costed field trip after the modules.
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