Mike Flory, from the Kelch Aviation Museum in Brodhead, teaches about the principles of flight in a hands-on game in which a student uses an air blower to keep a ping pong ball afloat, during the Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
JANESVILLE β The orange ping pong ball hovered in the air, as a student directed a small handheld blower under it.
Nikolas Hein, from the Kelch Aviation Museum in Brodhead, turned the moment into an aviation engineering lesson for area seventh and eighth-graders who were spending Tuesday at Revv Aviation at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville.
A volunteer with Women in Aviation teaches students about flight during the Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Β
Students play STEAM β science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics β games at REVV Aviation, at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport, during the Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
Middle schoolers learn about aviation principles at theΒ Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Β
A student tries their hand at welding at theΒ Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Β
Middle schoolers from Beloit and Janesville learn about aviation at the Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
A student talks with an instructor at theΒ Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
Students listen to a speaker at the Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Β
TinaΒ Hartlaub, of the Wisconsin chapter of the North Central 99s, shares about aviation duringΒ theΒ Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Β
Students learn about aviation during theΒ Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Β
Nikolas Hein (left) and Mike Flory from the Kelch Aviation Museum in Brodhead, teach about the principles of flight in a hands-on game in which a student uses an air blower to keep a ping pong ball afloat, during the Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.
Nickolas Hein,Β from the Kelch Aviation Museum in Brodhead, demonstrates Bernoulli's principle with a balloon and an air blower at theΒ Pistons and Props STEAM/Career Day at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville Tuesday, April 29, 2025.Β
