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One student · One pathway

Maya flies drones
outside Two Harbors.

Scene 01Spark

Telemetry · 412 hrs · Two Harbors, MN

She's been logging flight time since she was fourteen.

Four hundred hours on FPV. Reads weather like other kids read group chats. Solders her own ESCs at the kitchen table. None of it shows up on a transcript — and that's the entire problem we're here to fix.

  • 412 hrs flown
  • FPV racing
  • FAA Part 107 study
  • Solders her own ESCs
  • Reads METAR/TAF
Scene 02Translate

None of that fits a college application. All of it fits a skill graph.

The atlas runs twelve interest categories — the same vocabulary used to tag 14,360 programs. Maya's evidence collapses into one of them.

  • 412 hrs flown
  • FPV racing
  • FAA Part 107 study
  • Solders her own ESCs
  • Reads METAR/TAF
  • Vehicles
  • Aviation & Aerospace
  • Machines & Manufacturing
  • Electrical & Electronics
  • Software & IT
  • Construction & Trades
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Engineering & Design
  • Safety & Emergency
  • Outdoors & Natural Resources
  • Industrial Systems
  • Healthcare Tech

Aviation & Aerospace · confidence high

Scene 03Match
Aviation & Aerospace→ narrowed catalog

One tag. Three credentials. 427 real programs.

  1. Certificate~12 mo · in atlas
    119
  2. Associate's~24 mo · in atlas
    139
  3. Bachelor's~48 mo · in atlas
    121
  4. Same interest, three different time horizons. Pick the credential and you've narrowed the world to a few dozen programs.

  • Associate's Degree49.01
    AviationLake Superior College · Duluth, MN
  • Associate's Degree49.01
    AviationAcademy College · Bloomington, MN
  • Bachelor's Degree49.01
    AviationAcademy College · Bloomington, MN
  • Associate's Degree49.01
    AviationDakota County Technical College · Rosemount, MN
  • Certificate49.01
    AviationLake Superior College · Duluth, MN
  • Bachelor's Degree49.01
    AviationMinnesota State University-Mankato · Mankato, MN
Scene 04Place

Lake Superior College
Duluth, MN.

Associate's Degree · CIP 49.0124 mo
Aviation

Students learn flight principles, navigation, and airport operations. Careers include pilot, flight attendant, and air traffic controller.

Public · technical college

This isn't a stand-in. It's a real program in the atlas, joined the same way the engine on /data joins them — Scorecard CIP anchor, O*NET crosswalk, BLS wage roll-up.

Where it sitsDULUTH
UNITID
173,461
State
MN
Lat
46.78
Lng
-92.15
Scene 05Work

Within 75 miles of Duluth, 1 aerospace & defense employers are on the seed list.

  • Cirrus AircraftDuluth, MN · aerospace defense · 1k-5k
    4.6 mi
Scene 06Loop

That was one student, one tag, one school.

There are 427 programs in the atlas and eleven other interest categories. The map is the engine; this was the story. Pick your own starting point.