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Drones are increasingly providing educational opportunities for students and teachers.
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Drones are increasingly being used in schools as a fun, interactive tool for learning and education. Drones provide many new opportunities in the classroom. For instance, students can gain experience in flight path planning, using drones for data collection and geospatial mapping and learning about aerodynamics by understanding how drones lift and move through the air. 


Some schools are also providing students with the opportunity to improve their knowledge and understanding of drones through an enhanced agriculture curriculum. For instance, CQUniversity partnered with Isis District State High School and showed students how drones can be used for farm management, including maintaining fence lines, inspecting crops and animal paddocks, and improving farm productivity through survey data. 

She Maps

Founded by geospatial scientist Dr Karen Joyce and former high school teacher Paul Mead in 2017, She Maps offers STEM drone education programs for schools. She maps provides ready-to-teach classroom materials, lesson plans and assessment rubrics that align with the Australian curriculum as well as industry standards and practices. 


Many industries realise that there is an urgent need to address drone skill shortages to meet the growing demand for drone operators and geospatial experts. For many, especially girls, educational drones can be the key to see STEM through a different lens, and to gain confidence in subjects often considered male-dominated. She Maps fills this gap, while and also supports teachers that lack the ‘know-how’ to use educational drones in the classroom. 


Thanks to the support from the Australian Government as part of the Department of Industry, Science & Resources’ Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship (WISE) Round 4 Grant, She Maps is working with 24 secondary schools in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, to provide support to female students in low-socio-educational areas through their latest initiative A Launchpad for Women: Promoting Geospatial and Space Careers to Female Youth. In 2023, She Maps engaged over 460 teachers across metropolitan, regional, and remote locations. 
 

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She Maps: Drone Education Made Easy For Schools