Logo design for a website/company dealing in a particular software for universities

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This is a logo for our website/company, FlightPath Labs (see attached screenshot). As you can see, the site currently has a plain logo which we do not like. The service we are selling is cloud-based hosting and support for academic software, specifically targeting advising at the university level. If you need more information about what we offer, please visit flightpathlabs.com
A design that utilizes a similar "feel" as the lower cartoon-style icons on the page would be best. While I would like "FlightPath Labs" text to be part of the logo, along with an icon of some sort, the slogan text, "academic advising and degree audit" can either be blank or placeholder text, so I can change that myself, or leave it off entirely.
Target Market(s)
Universities, administrators and IT departments at universities, faculty and advisers at universities
Industry/Entity Type
It Company
Logo Text
FlightPath Labs
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Requirements
Must have
- An icon "component" to it, so that I can use just the icon (minus the text) if I wish. I can cut this out myself in photoshop, if its in different layers, etc. The icon part should have a similar "feel" as to the lower royalty-free icons I used on the page itself, in my screenshot I attached.
Nice to have
- It would be nice if the logo could be easily turned into a white-color-only design, so that it could be printed on ink pens and other conference give-aways, but this is not a requirement.
- Use of blues would be nice, but not required. The designer is free to select their own colors if they feel they work better.