We take a look into the physics behind drones, what factors make them work, and what we as humans need to fix to make drones available to us without having problems. We learned about the forces behind drones and flight in general lift, drag, weight, and thrust. We also learned about the impact drones have on human life and how important it is. When learning about how important it is and all it it can do and does like used for military use for weapons or surveillance, or medical purposes, delivery, filming, farming, and they are even used for hurricane hunting which means after a hurricane they track down survivors and get to them a lot quicker than firefighters. We did also look at the negatives of drones and how people are worried about privacy and drone malfunctions. With all that we also learned about past aviation all the way back to World War II and we compared how we evolved since then. We got into to groups and had our own assigned drone and we had to fly and learn to control them. My group created a drone obstacle where you had the fly the drone through obstacles and land on our finishing mark. We were the Trigonometry group so at our exhibition we presented the trigonometry behind drones and just our experience as 9th graders learning trigonometry.
I am really proud of two things and those things are how much I learned about drones and how it opened my mind to new technology. By that I mean that learning about the things drones can do and how I was really fascinated with how we are advancing and evolving that I want to learn about other technologies that are changing the world. I am also proud of how I presented at exhibition because I feel I presented with a lot of confidence and I explained the work we did thoroughly. It felt really good getting compliments like, "Wow that was really informative." or "That was a really good presentation and explaining of your topic."
Here is the link to our Drone Weebly: http://historyfromabovedrone16.weebly.com/
Reflection
I am most proud of my posters came out and how I strengthened my communication skills by interacting a lot with my group members. I would like to change how we didn't showcase our obstacle course during our exhibition because I was really proud of that idea and how it came out. I was sad of how we never got to show it at exhibition. Overall I would do this project again because of how unique it was for me to work with drones and studying about new technology.
I am most proud of my posters came out and how I strengthened my communication skills by interacting a lot with my group members. I would like to change how we didn't showcase our obstacle course during our exhibition because I was really proud of that idea and how it came out. I was sad of how we never got to show it at exhibition. Overall I would do this project again because of how unique it was for me to work with drones and studying about new technology.