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The students at Mescalero Apache Middle and High School are getting ready for their annual aerial drone competition, which takes place this Saturday, December 6, on the reservation near Ruidoso in New Mexico, as reported by Ruidoso News. The event brings together pilots, navigators, teachers and families, and it turns the school gym into a…
San Antonio’s largest drone competition showed how hands-on learning is shaping the next generation of technical talent. Nearly two hundred fifty students from sixteen school districts filled the Boeing Center at Tech Port for the 2025 Dee Howard Foundation Drone Competition. Eleven of those districts came from the San Antonio area. Students worked through tight…
Imagine building a small drone at fourteen and then one day walking into your first job at the same company that once cheered for you during
The drones come from a Texas company called Campus Guardian Angel. The Florida Department of Education made the announcement after
Lake Mills Community Schools in Iowa are giving students a new reason to look up. Thanks to a grant from the Iowa STEM Scale-Up Program, the district launched Drone Designers: Exploring STEM Careers this spring, a hands-on initiative that blends technology, creativity, and flight. Albert Lea Tribune was there and gave us the info. Building,…
Edison High School in Richmond is giving students a head start in one of the fastest-growing technology fields. Its drone program, now in its second year, is helping juniors and seniors gain real-world flight skills and a path toward FAA certification. The program is led by engineering teacher Derek Gulling, who launched the class during…
A Halloween night disagreement over a drone flight in Coweta County, Georgia, escalated into gunfire and an arrest, as Times Herald reports and according to the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to a home on Providence Church Road after receiving reports that a man had fired a gun at his neighbor. The suspect, identified…
Russia has purchased 18,000 drones for 500 schools at a cost of 8.38 billion rubles ($82 million USD) in 2024 as part of a program training teenagers to operate unmanned aerial vehicles for combat, according to Ukrainian intelligence reports. The program, which began in 2023, targets students from grades 8-9 and aims to develop “understanding…
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