Kaye R. Ebelt Biography
Kaye Ebelt earned a bachelor of Arts degree in Education from the University of Montana, 1984 and a Masters Degree in Education with an emphasis on computer technology from Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995 and is currently working on a Aviation Science Degree from Utah Valley State College. She teaches 5th grade at Target Range School in Missoula, Montana.
Kaye has been involved in aerospace and aviation education since she visited Kennedy Space Center and attended Space Camp in 1993. In the fifteen years since that visit, she have developed an interest in flying and pursued a private pilot's license and ground instructors rating, Science of Flight Instructor Trainer for EAA, became a Major in the Civil Air Patrol, Mission Observer, Commander of the Missoula Civil Air Patrol Composite Squadron, Director of Aerospace Education for the CAP Montana Wing and Aerospace Education Coordinator for the YMCA Mission to Mars Space Camp. Kaye has given numerous presentations on aviation and aerospace to educators and students throughout the state.
Last year she earned the Frank Brewer Award for Aerospace Education. She was honored chosen by the Montana Space Grant Consortium to attend LiftOff '06, Return to the Moon Seminar, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. In 2003 she was awarded the A. Scott Crossfield Teacher of the Year Award and Inducted into Crown Circle for Aerospace Education Leadership in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was selected as Aviation Educator of the Year by the Montana Aeronautics Division in 2001 and chosen to represent the University of Montana at Texas a & M and attend a NASA Mission Geography Course and Advanced Space Camp. While at space camp she became a certified Underwater Astronaut Trainer diver. 1999 Kaye was the recipient of three flight scholarships; Blue Goose Flight Scholarship, GAMA Excellence in Aviation Education and International Northwest Aviation Council's Flight Scholarship. In 1998 she was the teacher chosen to represent Montana at Liftoff '98 and participate in the Advanced Space Science course at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. She has received the Aerospace Education Excellence Award in 1997. 1998 and 2001.