{"id":320,"date":"2025-01-28T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:19:43","slug":"stem-visit-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/2025\/01\/28\/stem-visit-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM visit &#8211; Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S1 and S2 were visited recently by Emma Chittick from Skills Development Scotland, who delivered a Drones Workshop to engage pupils in STEM subjects by applying them to the world of work. S2 pupils commented that &#8220;we learned teamwork\/communication skills and being observant along with being able to drive the drone&#8221; and learned &#8220;what jobs were involved with drones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All participants thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the challenges and activities! Most of the pupils had never tried flying a drone before and all agreed they\u2019d definitely like to do it again. An S1 pupil commented \u201cmy brother has a drone and I\u2019m going to ask if I can have a go flying that now\u201d. Another said \u201cI really enjoyed it, it was so cool especially when we got the drone to do flips\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>An S2 pupil commented that &#8220;We learned what drones can be used for, and how they help us.&#8221; After the session the classes had a discussion imagining all kinds of handy uses for drones in the future \u2013 the most popular one being the delivery of Chinese take-aways to Whalsay!<\/p>\n<p>Special thank you to Emma for visiting with the drones and delivering a fun and engaging lesson to promote STEM skills and careers.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-320 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/s2-with-the-drones\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" 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class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/s2-drone-tricks\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28165641\/S2-drone-tricks-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28165641\/S2-drone-tricks-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28165641\/S2-drone-tricks-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28165641\/S2-drone-tricks-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28165641\/S2-drone-tricks.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" 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https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28165628\/Drones-navigation-challenge.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/2025\/01\/28\/stem-visit-drones\/s1-with-drones\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28171320\/S1-with-drones-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28171320\/S1-with-drones-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28171320\/S1-with-drones.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/2025\/01\/28\/stem-visit-drones\/s1-drone-navigators\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28171319\/S1-drone-navigators-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28171319\/S1-drone-navigators-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/secondary2425\/uploads\/sites\/3581\/2025\/01\/28171319\/S1-drone-navigators.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S1 and S2 were visited recently by Emma Chittick from Skills Development Scotland, who delivered a Drones Workshop to engage pupils in STEM subjects by applying them to the world of work. S2 pupils commented that &#8220;we learned teamwork\/communication skills and being observant along with being able to drive the drone&#8221; and learned &#8220;what jobs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/2025\/01\/28\/stem-visit-drones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">STEM visit &#8211; Drones<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4511,"featured_media":326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[48,24,47,27],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-uncategorized","tag-s1","tag-s2","tag-skills","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/secondary2425\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}