Frontier Precision Unmanned donates $50,000 in drones to support AeroX workforce programmes

Mea­sure­ment tech­nol­o­gy provider Fron­tier Pre­ci­sion Unmanned has donat­ed two drones val­ued at $50,000 to AeroX to sup­port its sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, engi­neer­ing, and math­e­mat­ics (STEM) work­force devel­op­ment ini­tia­tives.

The drones will be used in two new AeroX pro­grammes that pre­pare high school and col­lege stu­dents for jobs and careers in the fast-grow­ing unmanned air­craft sys­tems sec­tor.

AeroX drone avi­a­tion and ani­ma­tron­ics engi­neer­ing edu­ca­tor Don­ald Sweep­er remarked: “This gen­er­ous gift will be invalu­able in help­ing young peo­ple in this com­mu­ni­ty gain the expe­ri­ence they need to qual­i­fy for new high-pay­ing jobs we expect to attract through AeroX’s work.

“We applaud and thank Fron­tier Pre­ci­sion Unmanned for play­ing a lead­er­ship role in help­ing us pro­pel our work­force and our econ­o­my.”

Sales and ser­vices sup­port spe­cial­ist for Fron­tier Pre­ci­sion Unmanned Cole Martz added: “Giv­ing back to the com­mu­ni­ty and younger gen­er­a­tion is a big part of Fron­tier Pre­ci­sion Unmanned and I want to be a part of that.”

Martz pre­vi­ous­ly worked as a UAS oper­a­tor for UPS Flight For­ward and was advanc­ing its drone med­ical pack­age deliv­er­ies rou­tine­ly oper­at­ing across the Atri­um Health Wake For­est Bap­tist cam­pus since 2020.

As a spe­cial­ist with Fron­tier Pre­ci­sion Unmanned, Martz has been an active sup­port­er of local unmanned avi­a­tion youth camps, offer­ing demon­stra­tions and talk­ing with stu­dents about unmanned avi­a­tion career oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Fron­tier Pre­ci­sion Unmanned has donat­ed a Delair UX11 PPK map­ping drone used wide­ly in the con­struc­tion and envi­ron­men­tal indus­tries to cre­ate two-dimen­sion­al and three-dimen­sion­al maps of tar­get­ed areas.

The sec­ond drone, a DJI Matrice 210 RTK, is com­mon­ly used for inspect­ing infra­struc­ture of any kind, as well as tak­ing pic­tures of acci­dent and inci­dent scenes to pro­vide sit­u­a­tion­al aware­ness for pub­lic safe­ty agen­cies.

AeroX will use the drones for two STEM ini­tia­tives under devel­op­ment for sum­mer 2023, a sum­mer intern­ship pro­gramme for stu­dents enrolled in Eliz­a­beth City State University’s avi­a­tion sci­ence bachelor’s degree pro­gram under a recent­ly signed part­ner­ship agree­ment, and a pro­gramme that will pro­vide train­ing and work expe­ri­ence for high school stu­dents to pre­pare them for jobs as UAS oper­a­tors upon grad­u­a­tion.

Fron­tier Pre­ci­sion Unmanned is employ­ee-owned with over 34 years of expe­ri­ence in sur­vey­ing, map­ping, engi­neer­ing, con­struc­tion, GIS, drones/UAS, foren­sics, law enforce­ment, forestry, water resources, mos­qui­to and vec­tor con­trol, and nat­ur­al resources pro­fes­sion­als through­out the west­ern US.

In Octo­ber, Forsyth Coun­ty Sheriff’s Office launched North Carolina’s first Drones as First Respon­ders pro­gramme.

AeroX Part­ners with Forsyth Coun­ty Sheriff’s Office to launch North Carolina’s first drone-based first respon­der ser­vice

In June, Eliz­a­beth City State Uni­ver­si­ty, AeroX and Pied­mont Flight Train­ing joined forces to expand avi­a­tion edu­ca­tion, strength­en and diver­si­fy the indus­try work­force and build an autonomous urban air­craft infra­struc­ture in North Car­oli­na.

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