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Youngest Person, First Black Man to Fly Around the World Visits New Rochelle School
Barrington Irving spoke to Isaac E. Young students Tuesday and is set to visit Albert Leonard Wednesday.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The youngest person to fly solo around the world — and the only black person to do so — visited Isaac E. Young Middle School in New Rochelle Tuesday to meet with seventh and eighth graders.
Barrington Irving, whose 2007 flight set a Guinness World Record, talked to the students about The Flying Classroom, a cutting-edge digital curriculum that makes science, technology, engineering and math applicable to the lives of young people.
According to his website, Experience Aviation, Irving was born in Miami, built a plane himself, graduated magna cum laude from an aeronautical science program and founded an educational nonprofit.
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Irving will be visiting with students at Albert Leonard Middle School Wednesday, answering questions and signing autographs.
Photo caption: From left, Barrington Irving, Assistant Principal Tawanda Robinson and Principal Anthony Bongo. Photo credit: City School District of New Rochelle.
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