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If you read only one thing today...make it this story about the #drone team from Brockton High:

"The other teams come from suburban districts, some offering aeronautical engineering programs. Others have parents who are engineers or have time and resources to take them on weekend drone excursions.

The Brockton kids speak multiple languages and have impressive GPAs, but they don’t have those built-in advantages. Quite the opposite. Two live in foster homes." wgbh.org/news/education-news/2 #droneracing

GBH · Brockton High students fight for their futures at ‘America’s most violent high school’As a national firestorm came down on their school, a small group of students have been concentrating on a drone competition and their college dreams.

“In the coming "third #drone age", the #technology will further improve and proliferate, so that #terrorist or militant groups will use #lethal #autonomous drones to pursue their political objectives, Dr Rogers says.

There are already unconfirmed reports of Russia and Ukraine using lethal autonomous drones that can #identify and #attack #targets without human input, using artificial intelligence.”

#AI / #HumanInput / #DroneRacing / #OpenSource <abc.net.au/news/science/2024-0>

ABC News · Cheap drones are changing war. This is how they went from a weekend hobby to a weaponBy James Purtill
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Racing drone with blue frame, clear props, black motors, and black canopy resting on the gymnasium floor.

Black transmitter and white FPV goggles in the background.

Fix & Fly at Washburn High School (Minneapolis).

#DroneRacing #DroneSports #TinyWhoop #drone #FPVDroneRacing #TinyTurbines  #TwinCitiesMN #TwinCities #MPS #Minnesota #MNastodon #YouthDroneSports #CollegiateDroneSports #YDSC #CDSC #STEM #SecularHomeschooling #homeschooling

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Purple drone of Eclipse of Tiny Turbines is just lifting off. Pink drone of ShyDragon, Captain of Tiny Turbines, is still on the starting gate. (This is during practice.)

Racing started at 10 AM and spectators are welcome.

YDSC/CDSC IRL Race at Washburn High School in Minneapolis. (Youth Drone Sports Championships/College Drone Sports Championships)