Project SOaR™

School/Student Opportunities and Rewards

“An educational outreach program focusing on
science, technology, engineering and mathematics,
and dedicated to enhancing the performance,
success, and personal growth of youth.”

Celebrate Freedom Foundation’s™ Project SOaR™ is an academic outreach program partnership that supports the science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses in the middle and high schools and provides skills and competencies greatly needed in the global workplace.  Project SOaR™ stimulates career choices and the development of critical skills that our youth and nation require in order to maintain the U.S. technological advantage which is essential to assuring the health of our nation’s industry and ultimately America’s freedom.  

 Project SOaR™ incorporates a fast-paced curriculum of hands-on activities, experiments, and simulations using high technology industrial and U. S. Army aviation and transportation resources as a platform.

 The Celebrate Freedom Foundation™ is a non-profit organization and Project SOaR™ is based at the Metropolitan Airport in Columbia, South Carolina, from which it will deploy throughout the state and nation.

SOaR™ enhances the performance and success of students who have been identified as educationally and/or economically "at risk" or non-motivated. In addition, those students who perform well in the classroom but are looking for career options and guidance will be focal points of the SOaR™ experience. The program actively involves students in hands-on, real-world learning experiences that for the student will:

 ·        Overcome the perception that the study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics is difficult and boring

 ·        Become more interested, knowledgeable, and skilled in these content areas

 ·        Become aware of the need to set personal goals to achieve success

 ·        Understand the importance and advantage of working collaboratively with others to solve problems

 ·        Realize the negative effects of substance abuse

 ·        Recognize the importance of remaining in school

 ·        Be equipped with a better understanding of career options to pursuing careers in the sciences and in technology via military service 

• To stimulate an interest in the technology, trades and engineering fields which are essential to providing the workforce of the future

• To provide a strong positive alternative to involvement with gangs

• To establish stronger relationships with educators, influencers, community leaders, parents, and policy makers

Kershaw County, SC Applied Technology Education Center
Students applying paint onto a SOaR ^TM CFF Cobra Helicopter

Over 5,000 high school students participated in SOaR^tm during its 2007 Pilot Program,
which was an outstanding success

In action at the ATEC High School!

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