{"id":2453646,"date":"2020-01-23T23:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/five-aspen-high-school-students-receive-12000-aviation-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:36:01","slug":"five-aspen-high-school-students-receive-12000-aviation-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/five-aspen-high-school-students-receive-12000-aviation-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Aspen High School students receive $12,000 aviation scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/aviation-atd-012420-1-1024x639.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/aviation-atd-012420-1-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/aviation-atd-012420-1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/aviation-atd-012420-1-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/aviation-atd-012420-1-1536x958.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/01\/aviation-atd-012420-1-2048x1278.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Thursday morning in the Aspen Middle School aviation classroom, Hannah Popish (left), Porter Holmbeck, Anders Weiss and Asher Fite stood with their families after each receiving $12,000 scholarships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Made possible by the BettyFlies Foundation, a nonprofit created in memory of renowned local pilot Betty Haas Pfister; Pitkin County Air Rescue, Ger R. Andlinger, and the Aspen Flight Academy, these inaugural BettyFlies Foundation Flight School Scholarship awards aim to cover the cost of earning a private pilot license for each student, supporting the teens in pursuing careers in aviation and aeronautics after high school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThis is a group of great, well-rounded kids. I am impressed by how motivated they are,\u201d said Peter Hutter, a pilot and member of the BettyFlies Foundation advisory board. \u201cThis is a terrific opportunity and a special thing for our community to have available to students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Jack Fox also was awarded a $12,000 scholarship, but was not at the Thursday morning award ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/five-aspen-high-school-students-receive-12000-aviation-scholarships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday morning in the Aspen Middle School aviation classroom, Hannah Popish (left), Porter Holmbeck, Anders Weiss and Asher Fite stood with their families after each receiving $12,000 scholarships. Made possible by the BettyFlies Foundation, a nonprofit created in memory of renowned local pilot Betty Haas Pfister; Pitkin County Air Rescue, Ger R. Andlinger, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2453646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 10:17:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}