Drone Code with Python 3 (In-Person 5-Day Camp) - 4 locations - $579 (special ends 4/21)
*The event has already taken place on this date: Fri, 08/16/2024
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Monday:
- Ice-breakers
- Introduction to drones, history, basics, parts
- Basics of flight mechanics
- Introduction to Python 3
Tuesday:
- Introduction to racing drones
- Introduction to how drones are revolutionizing various industries
- Introduction to drone choreography
- Introduction to drone movement terminology
- Introduction to drone programming with scratch (block-based coding)
- Drone programming challenges
- Introduction to Python 3
- Introduction to essential programming components
- Introduction to Python shells
- Introduction to algorithms
- Basic Python programming challenges
- Connecting Python 3 and the Tello drone
- Introduction to Python 3 library support for the Tello drone
- Revisiting the Tello drone programming challenges, this time with Python 3
Wednesday:
- Revisiting how drones are used in the real world
- New drone programming challenges
- Introduction to more advanced programming techniques
- New programming challenges
Thursday:
- Introduction to an FPV (first-person view) drone racing league
- Creation of an FPV drone racing track with obstacles and items to race around
- Student challenge racing in our drone racing track
- More advanced drone programming, increasing drone speed
- Testing the real-world impact of how changing the drone speed affects drone performance
- Introduction to drone sensors
- Advanced drone programming challenge
Friday:
- Revisiting drones in the real world
- Introduction to drone laws
- Introduction to more advanced programming concepts
- Team drone programming challenge
- Creation and execution of your team flight challenge
- End-of-camp presentations in front of parents: parents are invited to arrive at 3.30 pm for end-of-camp presentations, 30 minutes before the regular end-of-camp time
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