What started as an idea to test a new aviation curriculum at Ada High School eight years ago has turned into an educational movement across Oklahoma that will soon be feeding a torrent of young professionals into the state’s second-largest industry.

Pilots , aircraft mechanics, drone operators, air traffic controllers, meteorologists and engineers will soon be flooding out of Oklahoma’s burgeoning aviation education system and into thirsty career fields that are heavy on demand, and short on supply.

Today, there are 149 Oklahoma high schools that are offering high school aviation curriculum from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, and that number is growing, said Paula Kedy, statewide aerospace STEM education manager for the Oklahoma Department of Aerospace and Aeronauti

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