"Open Drone Time"

On Thursdays and Fridays, Flight Club students are able to pop into Mr. Abbott's or Mrs. Fier's room to practice their flight skills with our Blade Nano QX drones. These small drones are difficult to fly and take concentration and a lot of practice in order to feel confident. We are learning though, that with some patience and help from more experienced flyers, we can all do it with finesse!

Here are two of the 3 pilots that came in today to try it out!

Week 2 - Unboxing the Bebop 2 Drones

The second session of the YES Flight Club was the reveal and unboxing of the second drone.

Mr. Abbott demonstrates flying the drone indoors. We couldn't go outside as there were 20-30 mph gusts of wind on the playground.

Day 1 - Meet and Greet the members of the YES Flight Club

The STEM Lab was humming with 3rd and 4th graders eating lunches, meeting classmates and wondering what it meant to be a part of the inaugural YES "Flight Club". Videos from the Parrot Bebop 2 list on YouTube were playing in the background as we shared names, drone experiences and ideas for using the new drones (which hadn't yet arrived).

Thanks to the Yarmouth Education Foundation for the generous funding of this new way to look at geography, navigation and the chance to create aerial video.