Drone at School - Technological inclusion using drones as tool / Drone na Escola – inclusão tecnológica usando drones como ferramenta

Abstract

Drones are technological tools that can be used for a variety of commercial, social, and educational purposes. The goal of the project is to use all the technology that drones possess and to dismember them for children and adolescents between 7 and 17 using the same methodology (STEAM, science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) but with content differentiation according to age group. The project can be immersive with activities, lectures and workshops or of long duration with up to 40 hours, being thus the content divided in 40 lessons of an hour and once a week, characterizing extracurricular activity. The main intention is to awaken in the students the will to learn and to do and to plan to undertake, the stimulus comes through practical and dynamic learning. Many professions that will be those of the students at that moment do not yet exist or are not consolidated, the STEAM methodology puts the student in a position to adapt and face new challenges naturally and consistently. We put the immersion program in schools like Parthenom and Notre Dame de Campinas SP (Brazil), in addition to the Flying Challenge project of the Air Bus Foundation in Itajubá MG (Brazil). The long-term project was executed during 06 months in the community of Jardim Santa Lúcia in Campinas SP and that resulted in a local video producer, a voluntary project with a social character.