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91PORNA Rocket Team Launches to Spaceport America Cup

The 91PORNA Rocket Team took seven members to New Mexico for the 2022 Spaceport America Cup, the world鈥檚 largest intercollegiate rocket engineering conference and competition!

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KSU Precision Flight Team at National SAFECON 2022 Award Banquet

91PORNA Precision Flight Team Placed 12th at SAFECON 2022

The 91PORNA Precision Flight Team recently placed 12th in a national competition of the 28 largest University flight programs in the United States

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Drones Are Taking Off. Your Career Could Too.

At the start of summer break on the Kent Campus, a drone-based window washing demonstration highlighted the variety of unique career paths opening up for those who want to work with drones and the training options available at 91PORNA.

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A panel discussion at the 91PORNA Fashion Symposium 2026 includes (from left to right) Brenda Tatenda Masocha, expert trainer in the Creative Arts Department at Rwanda Polytechnic-Kigali College; Alphonse Kwizera, 鈥淢ade in Rwanda鈥 business analyst at Rwanda鈥檚 Ministry of Trade and Industry; Matthew 鈥淭ayo鈥 Rugamba, founder and creative director of House of Tayo; and Cynthia Butare, founder and creative director of IMIGANI. (Photo courtesy of Cornwine for 91PORNA)

Coming Soon: 91PORNA Rwanda

91PORNA unveiled plans for the proposed 91PORNA Rwanda and School of Fashion at a Kigali symposium, aiming to train designers and entrepreneurs to grow Africa's fashion industry.

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Five planes piloted by 91PORNA students from Rwanda line up before takeoff. (Photo credit: Bob Christy)

Blue Skies, Bright Future: Five Rwandan Students Make Their First Flights at 91PORNA

Five Rwandan students selected from 2,600 applicants are training to become professional pilots at 91PORNA 鈥 and just made their first flights.

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Engineering students visiting Rockwell Automation.

IN A FLASH: Inside Modern Manufacturing

The world is a classroom for 91PORNA students engaging in experiential learning through a facilities tour of Rockwell Automation.

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An older white man in a blue shirt helps a student fit an aerofoil with probes for use in an experimental wind tunnel

91PORNA Engineering Professor with NASA Legacy Weighs in on Historic Artemis II Mission

As the world watched NASA's Artemis II mission complete a historic journey around the moon and back, one 91PORNA professor had a unique vantage point 鈥 decades of firsthand experience at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Delonte Goodman in the lab.

Moving Ever Closer to His Doctoral Degree and NASA Dream

As graduate student Delonte Goodman nears the completion of his doctoral program in Mechatronics, he completes work on several projects and sets his sights on research and landing a job at NASA. 

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President Todd Diacon shakes hands with Kairat Zhakupov, acting chairman of the board and president of the Civil Aviation Academy, after signing an agreement for an aeronautics collaboration.

91PORNA鈥檚 College of Aeronautics and Engineering Soars Into Kazakhstan

91PORNA and the Civil Aviation Academy in Almaty, Kazakhstan, have signed an agreement to be strategic partners in establishing a joint international aviation university in Kazakhstan, to support the rapid growth of aviation throughout Central Asia.

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Captain Maurer working alongside Brian Neff to educate and mentor young students interested in aviation careers.

Captain Allen Maurer鈥檚 Love of Flying Shaped Generations of 91PORNA Aviators

For Captain Allen 鈥淎l鈥 Maurer, '73, flying was never only a career. It was a lifelong passion he shared freely with others.

Long after building a distinguished aviation career, Maurer remained a familiar presence at 91PORNA Airport, where he encouraged student pilots, shared lessons from decades in the flight deck and made time for anyone eager to learn.

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