By Alex and Maha
The morning began with our bumbling group talking about our case studies we were to complete the night before. Jon, our instructor, told us that we would be presenting tomorrow on our picked studies on application use for drones. Next we worked on creating our own mapping missions for Area D and Paradise pond on the school campus. We went through the plans of each student, half taking Area D and the other half on Paradise pond. We picked based on what we thought best and ended up with two mapping missions for each location we were mapping.
Planned mission in DroneDeploy on Invasive Species Area D
We then went out the the athletic fields to work on our missions. One group worked on Area D, the farmers. One on Paradise pond, Grass. And the other two groups, Cinedrones, and Fire in the sky did flight evaluation checks. After we went back to our classroom and processed our mapping missions, with both missions under processed, before going off to lunch with a plan to go to Macleish field after lunch.
After lunch we drove to Macleish and had the chance to talk to a All-Knowing chestnut expert, Paul. Paul talked to us about the American Chestnut crisis and then half the group, Cinedronies and Grass, mapped his chestnut farm with our drones. The other half filmed the chestnut gap. After talking and learning, we drove home. It was a beautiful Sunny Day.