A Somerset High School STEM instructor is teaching students about drones and pushing to add drone racing to UIL competitions.
“Thousands of schools have shown that they have either have drones, are interested in drones, have a club of it, are teaching it in their curriculum,” said Jessica Duengan, Somerset High School Stem Teacher.“They started making an entire obstacle course. They made a point system. It filled the entire hallway,” she said.
Dunegan’s passion for drones also grew. She started a drone club at the high school this school year. In October, she submitted a proposal to the University Interscholastic League, or UIL, to add drone racing as an academic competition.“It’s in the study and review stage, so we’re looking at the logistics. So, OK, ‘When would we do a drone competition? What would be the vendors for the competition? Where would we do the events?’”Dunegan said drone racing would involve students navigating through obstacle courses.
“I have one student who -- she had never done anything like this before, and now she’s just, like, ‘I could go into the STEM field, you know? I could go to college.’ So just seeing it go from, ‘Oh, I can’t, I don’t know about all this,’ to ‘Yeah, I can do that’ is just -- it’s amazing to see that,” Dunegan said.
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