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Here are a few of the drones that we bought and studied
The McCaul Fund is a grant given to a student or a group of students to further their participation in the STEM field over the summer. It is unique to my middle school, and was awarded to myself and two other friends for the summer between our 7th and 8th grade years.
We were awarded the grant to advance our knowledge and understanding of drones, how they work, and how we would design one of our own. We used the grant money to buy various types of drones, mostly focusing on smaller ones that would be cheaper and easier to take apart and evaluate. Below are a few pictures of some of the drones we bought, including one that we completely took apart and looked at closely. When we were thinking of what we were looking for in a drone of our own, we noticed that many of the drones presented safety hazards due to the propellers. Our theoretical design involved a drone that had an outer casing to protect any hands that might try to interfere with the propellers motion. It would be either plastic or aluminum (light-weight) and would completely surround the drone in a semi-spherical shape. While we never actually created it, we made a few prototypes. This project developed our critical thinking and helped us to learn much more about drones than just observation or research would.
Here are a few of the drones that we bought and studied