The Mobile STEM Aviation Lab (MSAL) is EPC’s flagship pilot and the front end of our long-term regional workforce ecosystem. This 28-foot mobile classroom brings industry-grade flight simulation, drone operations, and AI learning directly to rural high schools that have historically lacked access to modern STEM and CTE pathways.

Your support does far more than deliver cutting-edge equipment, it gives rural students access to real, industry-recognized credentials and career readiness milestones. Through MSAL’s four-week rotation, students fly simulated aircraft, code autonomous drone missions, complete the FAA TRUST certification, and prepare for the Part 107 commercial drone exam. These tasks are all aligned with Alabama’s Option B Workforce Diploma and Career Readiness Indicators.

By investing in the MSAL pilot, you are strengthening a regional talent pipeline that keeps opportunity local. Your contribution directly supports a model designed to reduce youth outmigration, improve CCRI performance for partner schools, and develop homegrown aviators, technicians, and technology-ready graduates who can build their future right here in the Wiregrass.

Together, we can transform rural potential into a next-generation workforce, one rotation, one credential, and one student at a time

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