AUVSI to Emphasize STEM Education at XPONENTIAL Next Month

As you may already know, we’ve a comfortable spot for STEM research—the acronym stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—and the methods during which they dovetail with a ardour for drones and drone expertise.

Last yr we launched our High School STEM Scholarship for Aspiring Commercial Drone Pilots, which offers free entry to Drone Pilot Ground School for qualifying highschool college students to assist them cross the FAA’s Aeronautical Knowledge Test. (By the way in which, since launching we’ve processed over 90 functions!)


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So after all we’re enthusiastic about AUVSI’s emphasis on STEM training this yr at their upcoming XPONENTIAL convention, which can be held in Denver, Colorado from April 30 to May three.

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AUVSI is dedicated to creating alternatives at XPONENTIAL to encourage college students, ladies, younger professionals, and people new to unmanned methods with related and fascinating applications to increase their abilities, community with thought leaders, and see rising applied sciences.

– Brian Wynne, President and CEO of AUVSI

When you evaluate the record of STEM-focused occasions that can be held at XPONENTIAL this yr, you possibly can see how AUVSI is basically actualizing their mission to promote STEM research and develop the longer term STEM workforce.

Take a glance:

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Women and Diversity in Robotics

Attendees of this session will meet in small teams to interact on rising and impactful matters within the unmanned methods and robotics communities.
The discussion board will function velocity networking with thought leaders to evaluate STEM alternatives for career-focused ladies and women.

XBuild

This buildathon/hackathon duties contributors with creating options to tackle challenges dealing with unmanned methods. Teams will use essential considering to conceive, design and construct their innovations throughout a timed competitors. XBuild will happen prior to XPONENTIAL.
Final tasks can be displayed on the XPONENTIAL present ground as a illustration of innovation and collaboration.

Growing the Industry Hub

This devoted space within the XPONENTIAL exhibit corridor is a part of AUVSI’s mission to “grow and groom the future unmanned systems workforce.” It can be a spot the place college students can be taught concerning the STEM applications accessible at the convention, in addition to what AUVSI is doing past the scope of the convention itself to foster and domesticate the following era of innovators and leaders.

RoboNation

Youth robotics is rising in recognition throughout the U.S., and AUVSI is getting in on the motion.
RoboNation is a sequence of scholar robotics competitions organized by the AUVSI Foundation as an funding within the growth of aspiring engineers. During XPONENTIAL, an space of the present ground can be devoted to showcasing the winners of those competitions—we’re excited to see what college students come up, and to see their ingenuity on show.

RoboTour

AUVSI can be welcoming center and highschool college students from the Denver space to tour the AUVSI XPONENTIAL exhibit corridor. The RoboTour will assist this future era of scientists and engineers find out about unmanned methods and introduce them to rising applied sciences and developments.

Young Professionals Reception

This is a networking session for professionals who’re new to unmanned methods, the place they will be taught from the expertise and steering of seasoned leaders, and in addition get an opportunity to meet and mentor youthful college students who’re inquisitive about becoming a member of the trade.

In addition to the STEM programming, AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL convention will function greater than 200 academic classes and an exhibit corridor with greater than 725 cutting-edge unmanned corporations from world wide, offering details about the way forward for unmanned methods coverage, expertise, enterprise options, and trending matters.

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Zacc Dukowitz

Director of Marketing

Zacc Dukowitz is the Director of Marketing for UAV Coach. A author with skilled expertise in training expertise and digital advertising, Zacc is obsessed with reporting on the drone trade at a time when UAVs may help us reside higher lives. Zacc additionally holds the rank of nidan in Aikido, a Japanese martial artwork, and is a broadly revealed fiction author. Zacc has an MFA from the University of Florida and a BA from St. John’s College. Follow @zaccdukowitz or try zaccdukowitz.com to learn his work.

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