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Expanding Aviation Statewide Realizing Potential:
Kylie M. Snow, 2016 President’s Scholar
As the state’s only four-year aviation school, we are uniquely
positioned to prepare Georgia’s students for careers in the Each year, Middle Georgia State designates one student from the
fast-growing aviation and aerospace industry. entire senior class as the President’s Scholar. The student chosen must
have an outstanding academic record, have been involved in campus
The industry in Georgia consists of more than 700 companies and community service activities, and must demonstrate characteristics
with an annual economic impact of $51 billion. This makes aerospace - indicating the promise of a very successful future.
not peaches or peanuts - the #1 international export for the state.

This year, we expanded beyond the hub of our School of Aviation in In our first year as a university, our President’s Scholar was Kylie
Eastman to a new satellite learning facility at the Macon Downtown Mims Snow, an exceptionally accomplished student with a strong sense
Airport, where more than 20 students are now enrolled in Flight of her interests—both in terms of academic scholarship, as well as the
courses. application of her learning.

Our three-year aviation strategic plan calls for continued expansion In the rigorous psychology
to a statewide footprint. This will ensure that the industry will continue degree program she completed
to find its talent in our programs, which include Flight, Aviation Mainte- in the fall of 2015, Snow had the
nance & Structural Technology, Aviation Science & Management, and Air highest GPA among the more
Traffic Management. than 250 graduates across the
program’s four-year history.
Whether our Georgia Because of her academic
graduates take classes Northwestern excellence, she was invited to
online, through become Middle Georgia
employers, in Macon, Technical State’s first undergraduate
at the Georgia VECTR College teaching assistant.
Center, or at our hub
in Eastman, they will Atlanta In that role, Snow helped
be prepared to Satellite supervise, grade, and guest
contribute to the lecture for a large section of an
industry. And, through Delta G introductory psychology class,
growing partnerships Airlines eorgia mentoring and guiding her
with employers such fellow students.
as ExpressJet and Macon Corridor K-12 Schools 2016 President’s Scholar Kylie Mims Snow,
Piedmont Airlines, our Satellite erospace B.S. Psychology, Summa Cum Laude
students will find clear A Gulfstream
pathways to rewarding College and ’s Aerospace Snow worked with Dr. Paul Gladden on an independent research
aviation and Career project and gave several state- and regional-level presentations at
aerospace careers. Savannah Savannah honors conferences. She thrived at Middle Georgia State by taking
Academies Technical Satellite advantage of every opportunity we have—and graduated debt free.

College

Wiregrass Eastman Camden
Georgia MGA Satellite
Technical
College Aerospace
Hub

Valdosta Snow’s experiences prepared her well for graduate school, which
Satellite she began this fall, even as she launched an academic coaching
business with a colleague. Her long-term goals include earning a
doctorate in adolescent delinquency intervention to help at-risk youth.