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Planning Questions

Are you working by yourself or in a team?

In a team with cody

What materials will you need for your project?

PC, chromebook, coDrone

What is your plan to create in this project?

I plan to use the codrone to do something more complicated

What unique qualities will your project have?

It will be doing something that hasnt been done before

Reflections 

• Using Tello drone and wood blocks, I created an obstacle course because I thought it would be cool to make a challenging course to code the drone for. I made an assortment of obstacles to code the drone to fly over, under, and around. We used Cody's Chromebook to code the drone.

• During this process, I learned how to code the drone to fly around things. I also learned how to make the drone fly under things. I learned how to make the drone fly a certain distance forward.

• The 7 standards of the class are Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. My project ties to computational thinker because we had to run tests and solve the problems our drone had getting through the obstacle course.

• A challenge I overcame on this project was having the drone move differently through the obstacle course based on its battery level. The drone would go lower and higher based on the battery. I was able to do it by continuously changing the programming to account for these fluctuations. 

• Given a chance to do this again, I would change how we never got the drone to go all the way through the obstacle course. The reason why I would change it is because I would like to see the drone complete the course. I would also like to see the drone do a different course and see if it could complete that one.

• Hastings High School Career and Technical Education Program offers Agriculture, Business Management, Computer Programming, Construction Trades, Culinary Arts, Digital Multimedia, Engineering Design, Finance, Insurance, Marketing.  My project connects to the Computer programming CTE program at Hastings High School. This is because we had to program our drone to fly through the obstacle course. 

• My project connects to careers in drone piloting because we programmed and flew our drone. Drone pilots use drones for aerial photography, mapping, filming, and a wide variety of other jobs. Their annual salary is on average $70-$90,000.