Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA, July 27, 2010 – At a 2010 AirVenture news conference
today, winners of the EAA/DAHER-SOCATA 2010 "Young Eagles" International
Scholarships were introduced: Kylie Fencil of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; and Cory
Ravetto of Kalispell, Montana.
Fencil is a second-year student at Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, Wisconsin. She described being selected for the DAHER-SOCATA summer internship in France as a dream come true. During her six-week internship, Fencil was tasked with cabin interior improvements, as well as organizing the paint scheme contest for the 100th DAHER-SOCATA Anniversary Special Edition of the TBM 850. She currently is studying interior design at Fox Valley Technical College, with an emphasis on commercial design.
"The internship boosted my motivation to pursue an aircraft interior designer career, and I thank DAHER-SOCATA for giving me the tremendous opportunity of moving closer to attaining my ambition," Fencil said.
Ravetto, a sophomore at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott campus in Arizona, is an aerospace engineering major. During his DAHER-SOCATA internship, he was in charge of battery technology research for potential use on future TBM 850s and in other aircraft applications.
"Although my ultimate goal is to work in space systems industry, I enjoyed every bit of this internship as it provided me hands-on experience with a different cultural environment," Ravetto stated.
Nicolas Chabbert, the president of SOCATA North America, said 2010 was the fourth year that DAHER-SOCATA has provided American students with hands-on experience in the European aviation industry environment. “For us, this experience has proven highly successful, as it allows our company to further develop the multi-cultural engineering teams that benefit our worldwide customers,” he added. “This is why we will continue the program again in 2011.”
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