Two recent Chesterton Academy of Rochester graduates are taking off into aviation and aerospace engineering careers, with both now in Florida for study and work.

Micah ’22, had wanted to be a pilot “for as long as I can remember,” and CAR helped him inch out onto the runway. The summa cum laude graduate says he go

t “support from everyone there, which further motivated me, and no-doubt contributed to where I am today.”

While at community college in Tennessee, Micah got his private pilot’s license. Now he’s at Florida’s Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, majoring in Aeronautical Science and minoring in Aviation Safety.

“I recently earned my instrument rating and am in the final stages of my commercial license,” Micah says. “This year I plan on finishing that and beginning the process of earning my instructor certificate.”

After that, he’ll build his flight hours and aim for a job with a major airline.

The sky is not high enough for Allie’s career possibilities. The 2020 Chesterton graduate is a flight test engineer with Northrop Grumman in Melbourne, Florida. Allie’s company is active in the space industry and her job has her within an hour of the famous Kennedy Space Center.

Allie’s studies after Chesterton took her to the Florida Institute of Technology for a BS in aerospace engineering. By next spring she expects a master’s degree from the same school.

Her undergraduate education provided opportunities for internships in mechanical engineering, avionics engineering, and flight test engineering in locations on both coasts.

As Chesterton continues to produce graduates, alumni will branch out into a greater variety of careers and vocations. But each will have at its root a meaningful high school liberal arts education providing the illumination of faith to daily work, as well as perspective on the world and man’s proper place in it.