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Community colleges teach students unmanned aircraft skills | National Science Foundation

by Emily Winter | Aug 30, 2018 | Curriculum, Research, UAV

The National Science Foundation-funded program GeoTEd-UAS, managed by the Virginia Space Consortium and partners, is training educators to teach community college students important skills for the growing unmanned aircraft systems market from laws and regulations to...

Governor Northam Announces 120 New Jobs in Fairfax County

by Emily Winter | Aug 29, 2018 | Industry, Legislation, UAV

~ MAG Aerospace to invest $5.5 million to relocate and expand corporate headquarters ~ RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced that MAG Aerospace, the leading independent provider of manned/unmanned full-spectrum outsourced Intelligence, Surveillance, and...
Country’s first long-distance, residential drone delivery touches down in Montgomery County neighborhood | The Roanoke Times

Country’s first long-distance, residential drone delivery touches down in Montgomery County neighborhood | The Roanoke Times

by Emily Winter | Aug 14, 2018 | Industry, UAV

BLACKSBURG — It took eight minutes from the time a woman hit order on a mobile app until one of Wing’s drones traversed 1.4 miles and came buzzing overhead on Tuesday afternoon with a package of ice cream and other frozen treats in tow. Jackson Smith trotted into his...
Sen. Mark Warner highlights benefits of drone use in visit to Ferrum | The Roanoke Times

Sen. Mark Warner highlights benefits of drone use in visit to Ferrum | The Roanoke Times

by Emily Winter | Apr 2, 2018 | Industry, Legislation, Policy, Research, UAV

FERRUM — When asked about the future of Virginia’s economy, there is one industry at the top of Sen. Mark Warner’s mind. “If I was starting all over again, the area that I would go into is unmanned systems,” he said. Warner, who was an early investor in cellular...
Medical Cargo Could Be The Gateway For Routine Drone Deliveries | NPR

Medical Cargo Could Be The Gateway For Routine Drone Deliveries | NPR

by Emily Winter | Mar 13, 2018 | Industry, Policy, UAV

One shred of solace that surfaced as hurricanes and tropical storms pummeled Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico last fall was the opportunity to see drones realize some of their life-saving potential. During those disasters unmanned aircraft surveyed wrecked roads,...
Into the Darkness: UVA Robot Maps Historic Tunnel | UVA Today

Into the Darkness: UVA Robot Maps Historic Tunnel | UVA Today

by Emily Winter | Jan 8, 2018 | Curriculum, Research, Teleoperated Robots, UVA

Nicola Bezzo is using robots to map the past. Bezzo, a University of Virginia assistant professor in the departments of Systems and Information Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and two of his graduate students, Esen Yel and Tony Lin, have had a...
When disaster strikes, drones can go where reporters can’t | Poynter

When disaster strikes, drones can go where reporters can’t | Poynter

by Emily Winter | Dec 18, 2017 | Industry, Legislation, Policy, UAV, Virginia Tech

As Hurricane Irma churned inland over the Florida peninsula in early September, photojournalist Brian Emfinger readied his drone. After the eye passed over Naples, calming the 100-mph-plus winds and torrential rains, he lifted off. “Five minutes later, I’m flying over...
Students, robots as busy and efficient as bees at Virginia Western event | The Roanoke TImes

Students, robots as busy and efficient as bees at Virginia Western event | The Roanoke TImes

by Emily Winter | Dec 4, 2017 | Autonomous Vehicles, Curriculum, General Robotics, Research, Robotics Competitions

The challenges of coaxing a small, quirky robot along a ping-pong-table-sized course were readily apparent at Saturday’s Worker Bots contest. Held at Virginia Western Community College, Worker Bots was the 11th annual autonomous robot competition put on by the School...
U.S. startup Zipline has teamed up with the Rwandan government to deliver blood supplies by drone | Time

U.S. startup Zipline has teamed up with the Rwandan government to deliver blood supplies by drone | Time

by Emily Winter | Nov 29, 2017 | Ethics, Policy, Research, UAV

For several days Delphine Twese Hamwe’s 2-year old daughter, Ghislane Ihimbazwe, had been screeching in pain as fever wracked her tiny body. A nurse at the local clinic in central Rwanda told her that an acute form of malaria was attacking her daughter’s red blood...

City schools get robotics grant | The Coalfield Progress

by Emily Winter | Nov 27, 2017 | Curriculum, General Robotics

The Norton school system has been awarded a $5,000 STEM Competition Team Grant from the Virginia Department of Education. John I. Burton High School science teacher Diane Kinser said city schools will implement the Virginia STEM Competition Team initiative beginning...
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