The Smithsonian Air and Area Museum is ready to do one thing enormous for the trailblazing ladies of the drone business, as this yr it’s set to be the positioning of the 2023 Girls in Rising Aviation Know-how Awards.

The 2023 Girls in Rising Aviation Know-how Awards is just not a brand new program, nevertheless it’s gone by means of fairly the evolution. It began as merely a drone-focused awards ceremony however — as drones have morphed to embody comparable tech like air taxis — the awards program additionally grew to embody common ’rising aviation expertise.’

This system, which was launched in 2017, is designed to acknowledge ladies who’ve made main contributions to areas together with enterprise, policy-making, engineering, educating and analysis throughout the rising aviation industries.

The bodily ceremony itself has additionally grow to be larger and higher every year. In its early years, it was held as a part of the now-defunct Interdrone convention. However after Interdrone was cancelled in 2021, it nabbed a outstanding spot on the Las Vegas Conference Middle as a part of CES 2022, which is essentially thought-about the largest tech trade show in the world. The awards ceremony was held as soon as once more at CES 2023, however as soon as once more in an even bigger and higher means, due to the addition of the inaugural Hall of Fame. (Full disclosure, yours truly, Sally French, was named to the Hall of Fame in 2023 for creating The Drone Woman).

And this yr’s 2023 Girls in Rising Aviation Know-how Awards are set to be extra historic than ever, give its new spot in fairly actually historic venue.

In regards to the 2023 awards on the Smithsonian

The seventh Annual World Awards is headed to a completely new venue this time round: the Smithsonian Air and Area Museum in Washington D.C. It’ll be held on October 25, 2023. The Smithsonian’s Nationwide Air and Area Museum maintains the world’s largest and most important assortment of aviation and area artifacts, together with the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, the Bell X-1 (which broke the sound barrier), the starship Enterprise mannequin (used within the Star Trek TV present), and the Wright brothers’ Wright Flyer airplane.

The entire thing is coordinated by Girls and Drones, and on-line and in-person neighborhood centered round supporting ladies within the business.

In fact, there’s extra than simply some awards being doled out in D.C. that weekend. Girls and Drones will companion with Business Drone Alliance to host the Rising Aviation Applied sciences Thought Leaders’ Summit the day earlier than on Tuesday, October 24. That summit is meant to deal with constructing a framework to reshape the alternatives for a path ahead within the UAS/AAM business.

Easy methods to win a Girls in Rising Aviation Know-how Award

To earn recognition, you should be nominated, in a interval that’s open now by means of June 16, 2023. To appoint somebody, you’ll must fill out a kind explaining why they deserve too be chosen, how they’ve formed the business and what they’re doing to drive change, amongst different utility questions.

Nominees should be employed within the UAS/AAM business or have made a big affect on the business by means of their management, analysis, educating, or advocacy. Winners are chosen based mostly on their expertise “driving change and main the best way towards better feminine participation within the uncrewed aviation business.” There are just a few different standards, similar to that nominees should be not less than 18 years previous. And sure, self-nominations are allowed.

Nominate someone here.

Searching for different summits, workshops and drone occasions in 2023? Take a look at my information to the top drone events of 2023 around the world.

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