What Students Learn

Students master real-world emergency response skills by relying entirely on live camera feeds and teammate communication to locate and rescue targets. They also explore the complexity of synchronized flight, learning to use loops and functions to choreograph multiple drones in a single routine. This final stage emphasizes advanced flight planning—such as maintaining safe spacing between multiple aircraft—and requires high-level collaboration to synchronize movements to music.

What Students Do

The session begins with a movement-based "Have You Ever" icebreaker to build community. In the Search & Rescue competition, teams pilot Hopper through two 10-minute rounds, aiming to land on as many high-value targets as possible without direct line-of-sight. For the culminating Drone Show, students act as directors, sketching routines and coding at least four drones to perform synchronized patterns, shapes, or staggered takeoffs set to a 3–5 minute song. The course concludes with a showcase of these performances and a final reflection on their growth throughout the program.