Youth Drone Camps
Providing Career Technical Education (CTE) Skills for Drone Technology
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Applied Design, Skills and Technologies-based (ADST) curricular connections!
- Rare! This is the only drone camp in Western Canada for our youth. Designed by teachers and drone industry leaders.
- Impactful! Students discover the incredible opportunities in the rapidly expanding drone industry
- Powerful! Students fly one-on-one with professional drone operators.
No prior experience is necessary!
Weekend & Summer Youth Drone Camps Are Being Scheduled Across North America
School Boards, Non-Profit Organizations, and Companies are booking weekend camps for up to 48, 72 or 96 students per camp!
This program is designed to introduce students to the incredible opportunities within the current and future drone industry. Students will learn about drone safety, regulations and communications, piloting skills, drone racing, photography and videography, coding through drones, and many other highly engaging, and STEM-oriented learning activities.
The program has been designed for youth, ages 8-11 or 12-17, however, camp adaptations can be made for younger age brackets.
This program is run over a weekend, with 2x 5-hour classes per session, or as a 3-day or 5-day Summer camp with 3x 3-hour or 5x 2-hour sessions.
Youth Drone Camp Curriculum
Students will learn a variety of skills to kickstart their interest in drone technology, and give them an edge towards obtaining their professional drone pilot certificates! Topics include:
- Piloting skills, safety, and regulations
- Drone Flight Coding using DroneBlocks
- Aerial photography and videography
- Mapping and photogrammetry
- Problem solving with drone-based solutions
- Working in coordinated “Drone Teams”
- Drone Racing
Our Youth Drone Camp curriculum introduces students to coding using block coding, though the drones we use in our programs can be coded using various languages including Scratch and Python.
A Volatus Aerospace Youth Drone Camp instructor demonstrates the 3-axis rotational movements of a drone: roll, pitch and yaw!
A student uses the DroneBlocks software tool during Youth Drone Camps to program a drone to fly through an obstacle course.
A student attempts to navigate the Stage-1 Drone Racing course. As their skills improve, the stages get progressively more difficult!
A student pilots a drone laden with blocks during the “Engineering Studio” portion of Youth Drone Camp. Students compete in this design challenge to create the most efficient method to transport cargo between two points, not unlike the everyday challenges facing today’s drone operators!
