Business View Magazine | June 2019

175 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 engine for our region – southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southern Illinois. Our growth directly benefits Evansville, and the regional community as a whole. This regional impact is key, and we’ve developed great partnerships region-wide. One of my goals for 2019, is to reach further out into our regional communities to make sure they understand that our growth is their growth, too, and vice versa.” Closer to home, Hahn acknowledges, “EVV is a great community partner. We facilitate an annual 5K run on our runway which benefits a local nonprofit. Another partnership that has continued for more than three years is our partnership with the local Shriners, who do an air show every summer, coupled with our local children’s museum’s summer Science, Technology, Education and Mathematics (STEM) camp. The week of the air show, we help facilitate a week-long aviation- themed STEM summer camp, when the campers spend the first four days inside the museum learning about aviation, flight, the Bernoulli Principle of why planes fly, and building model planes. And on the camp’s final day, they visit the airport and tour our facility, meet the air show pilots and sit inside aircraft. When you meet an F-18 pilot, that’s something you’re not going to forget when you’re a kid. It’s a great example of both partnering with community organizations and trying to build that next generation of pilots. It’s one of the things I’m most proud of.” “We also work with Junior Achievement,” Hahn continues, “bringing students out to EVV and showing them all the diverse career opportunities at an airport. If you like to work with people, we need customer service people; if you’re a fire fighter or police officer, we need those service professionals at the airport; if you’re interested in engineering, you can do that at an airport. Our point is, there are a lot of things you can do and be at an airport. We’re our own little city out here, and I’m proud of that kind of community involvement and trying to cultivate a passion for aviation within our next generation.” In conclusion, Hahn succinctly sums up Evansville EVANSV I LLE REGIONAL A I RPORT