American Airlines  support several community education programs, including the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the nation’s oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. In 2015, American honored 210 children of employees, including 40 first-generation college attendees, with $560,000 in scholarships through the combined American Airlines Education Foundation. They also donated an MD80 aircraft to Oklahoma State University to serve as a learning laboratory for the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering program.