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29-Year-Old Refugee Pilot Flies Around the World to Promote Women in STEM
Engineers, scientists, students, tech companies and non-profit organizations are just a number of the individuals and groups that celebrated Internati...
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Here are the latest press mentions and media coverage on Dreams Soar and its mission. If you know of something we haven’t posted yet, please email Heather Schlichting.
16JunWoman Flies Around World to Promote STEM
Because of the lack of female role models in STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, many young women may not realize the possibility of ...
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31MaySmart Girl Pilot Shaesta Waiz is Flying Around the World to Promote STEM
Born in a refugee camp and escaping with her family to the United States in 1987 from Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War, Shaesta grew up to bec...
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24MayA Dream Has Launched for Young Pilot Promoting STEM in Aviation
Shaesta Waiz’s dream to fly solo around the world promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education is becoming a reality as she began...
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21MayDreams Soar Launch – Photo Album
Jill Meyers, Dreams Soar’s Women in STEM/Outreach Coordinator, created a great online collection of her photos documenting Shaesta’s launc...
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Afghan woman Shaesta Waiz seeks to become youngest to make solo round-the-world flight
Montreal: An Afghan pilot hoping to become the youngest woman in history to complete a solo round-the-world flight was preparing Monday to start the t...
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17MayAfghanistan-born woman on solo flight around the world
Born in an Afghan refugee camp, Shaesta Waiz says she remembers being painfully shy and afraid of airplanes. Now, the 29-year-old is the first female ...
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17MayFirst female Afghan pilot wants to be the youngest woman to fly solo around the world
By Emanuela Campanella Twenty-nine-year-old Shaesta Waiz began her solo flight around the globe. She set her sights on breaking a new record: to becom...
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17MayTaking Off From Columbus, A Flight Around The World To Inspire STEM Education
By CLARE ROTH On Monday morning, an aviator will take off from Columbus to continue a 90-day around-the-world trip, inspired by a historic Columbus fl...
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16MayHistoric ‘Dreams Soar’ round-the-world mission takes flight
Shaesta Waiz, the 29-year-old pilot of the 2017 ‘Dreams Soar’ solo round-the-world flight for STEM, touched down on May 15 at Pierre Elliot Trudeau In...
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16MayYoung Afghani woman takes off from Daytona Beach to pilot plane around world
By Seth Robbins DAYTONA BEACH — Shaesta Waiz, who is said to be the first certified civilian pilot from Afghanistan, took off Saturday for a three-mon...
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16MayFemale pilot attempting to circle globe, inspire aviation careers, departs Daytona Beach
The first certified civilian female pilot from Afghanistan will make an attempt to fly around the world to promote aviation education for women. Shaes...
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11FebOne Woman Soars as the world celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
My Future, Your Future, OUR Future. STEM Education: Living a Life Without Limits UNICEF estimates that in 2015, approximately 75 million children wer...
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10JanTaking Your Dreams to the Sky: Shaesta makes the Jan/Feb cover of Aviation for Women!
by Kelly Murphy It’s been said TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More. That may be the inspiration that Shaesta Waiz, WAI 45659, embraced ...
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28NovWomen in STEM Promoted at Discovery World Event: the Milwaukee Independent
By Anna Miller One such STEM career is aviation, which was well-represented at the Girls and STEM event by pilot Shaesta Waiz and her non-profit Dr...
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