A select group of year 9 and 10 students took part in a demonstration by the Australian Army at Canobolas Rural Technology High School as part of National Science Week on Thursday.
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The demonstration featured the Black Hornet and Wasp unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and followed a discussion of army careers that use UAVs, which are similar to to drones.
Canobolas High deputy principal innovation Matt Scott said the students who took part were from the school’s Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) program who have been looking at future careers in the field throughout the week.
“We’re looking at how technology has changed how people work,” Mr Scott said.
He said 65 per cent of jobs that will be around when the current year 6 and 7 cohort are ready to enter the workforce don’t exist yet.
He said the army discussed how the use of UAVs has changed how they work, how it has made their jobs safer in some instances and has also enabled them to access hard to reach or dangerous locations as well as see with infrared images.
On Monday, a former student, Sam Rodwell from Samuel Rodwell Visual Media and Direction also demonstrated how he uses drones for filming and photography and explained how he became a drone operator.
Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
