The Fresh Classroom by @PaulKelba

Our objective of using drones in the classroom, with help from a recent educational grant, is creating motivation for learning, stem fields in particular. The short list of learning content results was robotics, modelling and simulation as well as photography and connection with our natural world. An in-demand technology, with skills connecting to a variety of industries. Other factors that lead to some success were a loan program where students could work towards obtaining a school 'licence' where they were given the autonomy to sign out a drone a take it home to extend their skills, not surprisingly there was no problems with this. We rounded out the pilot with a mentorship program for the grade 8's and 9's with high school robotics/multimedia students to repair devices and design more sophisticated units, using Gimble's for a variety of projects this upcoming year. The lead students of our program documenting grade 9 grad was a highlight: ...