PCS Edventures!, Inc. Launches Drone Designers: Exploring Steam Careers
January 23, 2020 at 06:45 pm IST
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PCS Edventures!, Inc. announced the launch of its innovative enrichment program, “Drone Designers: Exploring STEAM Careers”, after an extensive development and piloting process. Drones are transforming the world of arts and entertainment, performing alongside artists as diverse as Metallica, Drake and Cirque du Soleil. Partnership between PCS Edventures and arts integration experts at the Sun Valley Museum of Art and the Americans for the Arts, students can follow in the footsteps of drone designers. This carefully scaffolded curriculum supports educators and students alike to weave together the engineering design process and principles of aerodynamics to costume, choreograph and code tiny aerial robots in performances. All content and learning processes follow real-life production team members at one of the drone performance companies. Students acquire soft skills like collaboration and problem-solving while taking on creative and technical roles that expose them to potential career paths, which include Programmer, Pilot, Creative Director, Lead Designer and Safety Officer. Drone Designers was methodically developed and tested to appeal to a wide range of learners across the STEAM disciplines. This objective was confirmed when PCS Edventures Curriculum Designer, Erika Liebel, took the program to Wood River Middle School for students to experience in Hailey, Idaho. Seventh grade Leadership students fully embraced the program and hosted a final costumed and choreographed drone performance set to music at their school dance.
PCS Edventures!, Inc. (PCS) is a provider of hands-on, K12 Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) curriculum and resources for educators in classrooms and out-of-school learning environments. The Company through Thrust-UAV has developed educational drones and drone curriculum. Its customers include schools and school districts from the collegiate to kindergarten level, and providers of out-of-school programming which include after-school programs, home-schooling programs, summer programs, and corporate outreach programs. It develops and sells a variety of STEM education products into the K12 market, such as Enrichment Programs, Discover Series Products, BrickLAB Products, Discover Drones, Add-on Drone Packages and Ala Carte Drone Items, STEAMventures BUILD Activity Book, and Professional Development Training. It offers approximately 31 different enrichment programs. The Company provides 13 different titles covering grades 1-12.