Fedex is helping some local aviation students' dreams take flight.

That's with purple runway aviation scholarships.

$2.5 million dollars total is being split between 6 college and universities.

One of them is indiana state university.

The school has a thriving aviation program.

News 10 caught up with one of the scholarship recipients about why he wanted to get into aviation.

"i came about it through a career exploration class and i just never really wanted to do anything else since.

It just seemed like a great opportunity and i know that a pilot shortage is coming up so hopefully i get in at the right time, but just the love of flying and the feeling that it gives you is just incomparable to anything else."

Twenty "5" thousand dollar scholarships were given out at isu