Editor’s Note: This article appears in Governing‘s Summer 2024 magazine. You can subscribe here. On the morning of Sept. 5, 2023, a fire sprang to life in a redwood forest in Humboldt County, Calif. It was spotted by one of more than a thousand cameras that are part of a backcountry network …
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L-R: ET Johnsen, Kylee Goldsberry, Abby Cox and Joseph Butterfield at the Educators Rising Conference, date and location not specified | Photo courtesy of Kylee Goldsberry, St. George News Last week I had the opportunity to witness the first group of student graduates at Career Tech High School. CTHS is …
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Dunedin High School robotics program The team at Dunedin High School won three medals at the Skills USA Florida Competition. DUNEDIN, Fla. – While most students are looking forward to summer and not having to do school work, the robotics and drone builders from Dunedin High School are preparing for …
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By: Chris Harlan Thursday, August 24, 2023 | 5:36 PM Christopher Horner | Tribune-Review Central Catholic assisant coach Jason Pinkston uses a television while talking with players on the Vikings sideline during a game at Seneca Valley last season. Chaz Palla | Tribune-Review Deer Lakes head coach Tim Burk leads …
Read More »Insitu announces high seas, long endurance Integrator VTOL U…
Insitu, A Boeing Company, announced its Integrator Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exhibition in National Harbor, Maryland. Integrator VTOL launches vertically on ships or land without sacrificing payload capacity or endurance. The system retains the performance of fixed-wing aircraft, providing the same long …
Read More »Sky high: Drone footage shows the stop/start progress of Hua…
Image: Mike’s Tropical Tech It’s the closest thing Hua Hin has to a boardwalk – Naresdamri Road in downtown Hua Hin, the approximately 500 metre stretch of road that runs from the fishing pier to the Chinese temple located close to the Hilton Hotel. In decades gone by it was …
Read More »High-tech high seas: how drone boats are changing the way na…
They can travel thousands of kilometres with no one on board, spend weeks at sea, and some are already armed with weapons. Drone boats are in the water around the world right now, as both private companies and militaries experiment with the technology. “We are at the very beginning of …
Read More »Flying High: Amazon Delivery Drones Ready for Take-off
In 2013, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos went on “60 Minutes” to introduce plans for a futuristic-sounding product: drone delivery. “These are effectively drones but there’s no reason that they can’t be used as delivery vehicles,” Bezos said in the segment. “We’re talking about delivery. There’s an item going into the …
Read More »New technologies flew high at International Drone Show in De…
Drone companies from Denmark, Europe and the U.S. flocked to the International Drone Show last week to showcase technologies and get updated on the latest drone developments. The annual expo and conference in Odense, Denmark, got a big thumbs up from international drone companies, who said the level of innovation …
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