The DC Area Drone User Group participated in the STEM is everywhere event at Howard University on March 9 to encourage the next generation of middle and high school makers to get excited about science, engineering, and drones.
DC DUG Director of Online Operations Gustavo Ruiz Zastrow noted that showing off flying robots to students helped give them concrete examples of how math and physics could be applied to something exciting in the real world rather than just being abstract concepts on a page.
Students were excited by what they saw and we received requests to teach about drones in schools.
We displayed this custom lego frame to show that much of the drone can be built from materials that students are already familiar with.
Journalist Malcolm Brown interviewed DC DUG Director of Education Christopher Vo and filmed him flying. Malcom is producing a short piece about the commercial market for small drones that will appear on the PBS website in April or May. This video will also include an interview with DC DUG President Timothy Reuter.
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I live about 40 miles from DC, have intended to make it to one of your events. I'm still trying to mangle some code for a tricopter and have had mostly frustation with that. I can get a motor or two to work, but not correctly. I do have a plane that flies pretty good with an IMU.