Winners of the FAA Airport Design Challenge 2025

My name is June Green and I've got my colleague. I'm Sean Kozika and I'm June Green's Deputy National Director of All Things That Are Fun. I want to congratulate everyone who participated in the 2025 FAA Airport Design Challenge and especially to the winners. I'm truly impressed by the creativity, teamwork and problem solving you showed in your designs. In this challenge you did many of the same things the real airport planners and engineers do every day which is planning, designing solutions and building models to bring those ideas to life. By entering this challenge you've already taken the first step into the exciting world of aviation. Aviation isn't always easy. Airports are daily solving big challenges from helping planes move safely to making travel easier for millions of people and that's why creative thinking and teamwork that you illustrated and demonstrated is so important. Programs like the FAA's Airport Design Challenge are a great way to work with your friends, learn new skills and solve real world problems. They also help you discover different careers that you might not have heard of before like airport planners, engineers, pilots, air traffic controllers and technology designers. Second place. Congratulations, it's fantastic. First place. What? Congratulations. My brain just got exploded. First place. Congratulations. So whether you're in kindergarten or a senior in high school with your own parking spot, your ideas matter. So keep asking questions, keep building and keep exploring how things work because that curiosity and creativity you're using today will turn into skills you'll use tomorrow and aviation needs bright young thinkers like all of you. The aerospace industry is full of exciting opportunities and the future of flight will be shaped by the next generation of innovators which is you. So keep dreaming big, plan your ideas, work hard and support each other throughout the whole journey and when you do that you can go farther than you ever thought you could. In aviation, the sky isn't the limit, it's just the beginning and we'll be cheering you on. Congratulations again on all your effort, time and imagination that you put into this. Your hard work really shows and you should be really proud of what you accomplished. Thanks again for being part of the FAA's Airport Design Challenge and we hope to see some of you working with us at the FAA someday in the future. Thank you.