STRATEGIC PARTNERS

AHFA partners with multiple organizations who share similar missions to empower and engage youth in aviation. A complete list of our partners include:

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ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

  • Be at least 16 years old by 1 June of the flight training year.
  • Be enrolled in high school* or homeschool during the flight training year.
  • Be a US citizen **
  • Have no more than 5 powered flight hours 
  • 3.0 current Grade Point Average either with an unofficial GPA Transcript or a registrar/counselor verifiable memorandum.

Notes: 

  • No flight or aviation experience necessary (we teach you to fly!)  
  • No commitment or obligation to the Air Force  
  • *USAFA & AFROTC Cadets may apply through their institutions
  • **Non-US Citizens regardless of residency status are ineligible to apply

 

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Dr. Robert Stickgold - Sleep, Memory, and Dreams: A Unified View
Air Force Research Laboratory
Video by Kevin D Schmidt
Jan. 6, 2025 | 01:16:00
Sleep, Memory and Dreams: A Unified View
Robert Stickgold, PhD
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston MA USA

The benefits that sleep confers on memory are surprisingly widespread. For simple procedural skills – how to ride a bicycle or distinguish different coins in one’s pocket – a night of sleep or an afternoon nap following learning leads to an absolute and dramatic improvement in performance. Sleep also stabilizes verbal memories, reducing their susceptibility to interference and decay, processes that all too easily lead to forgetting.

But the action of sleep can be more sophisticated than simply strengthening and stabilizing memories. It can lead to the selective retention of emotional memories, or even of emotional components of a scene, while allowing other memories and parts of scenes to be forgotten. It can extract the gist from a list of words, or the rules governing a complex probabilistic game. It can lead to insights ranging from finding the single word that logically connects three apparently unrelated words, to discovering an unexpected rule that allows for the more efficient solving of mathematical problems. It can facilitate the integration of new information into existing networks of related information and help infants learn artificial grammars. Disruptions of normal sleep in neurologic and psychiatric disorders can lead to a failure of these processes.

Dreams appear to be part of this ongoing memory processing, and can predict subsequent memory improvement. The NEXTUP (Network Exploration to Understand Possibilities) model of dreaming proposes that dreaming aids complex problem solving by supporting divergent creativity, acting more by exploring a problem's "solution space" than by searching for the solution itself.


Key Moments in the video include:

Timeline of a good night’s sleep
Sleep physiology
Neuromodulation varies across the wake-sleep cycle
Regional activation in REM sleep - in the brain
Sleep improves what you learn
Learning rate saturates rapidly
Sleep enhances performance
Sleep keeps what is important
Sleep explains the world - weather prediction task
Dream content and memory evolution
Dream hacking and creativity
NEXTUP - Dreaming by sleep stage

Audience questions:

Trying to reconcile amnesiac patient’s paper - hippocampus must not have much to do with dreams then?
Could you say a sentence or two about what you mean by the ‘hippocampus is cut off’?
How do we - how does one measure information flow between the neocortex and hippocampus? What are those methods?
The word pairs in slow-wave sleep - if you were to wake those subjects up, are they having a subjective experience or dreaming? Or are those processes going on non-consciously?
I’m curious about the relationship between sleep and other periods of time where your mind is at rest - do these work together, are there separate functions?
Schema memory and extracting gist - where do you think (a schema) looks like in a brain? What does sleep do to form or update one? More

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Resources

AHFA Locations & Training Partners

  • California Aeronautical University, CA 
  • California Baptist University, CA 
  • Marion Military Institute, AL 
  • Oklahoma State University, OK  
  • South Dakota State University, SD 
  • Troy University, AL
  • Schreiner University, TX
  • University of Texas San Antonio, TX
  • Tennesse State University, TN

*To learn how to become one of our training locations please email: 

 Afrs.ahfa.studentapplications@us.af.mil 

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS RECEIVE* 

  • Up to 12-15 flight hours 
  • Housing and meals during training 
  • Transportation to/from training location 
  • Classroom training (ground school) 
  • Flight simulator training 
  • All training is provided by FAA Certified Flight Instructors 
  • Access to university recreation facilities 
  • Mentorship from Air Force aviators  

*All items funded by USAF except:

  • FAA Class III Med Certificate
  • Luggage during travel
  • Personal driving to/from university assigned session

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                                                              Please direct program questions to: Afrs.ahfa.studentapplications@us.af.mil