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Brooklyn Aerodrome: using gliders to start STEM education

Brooklyn Aerodrome was exhibiting at the New York Maker Faire this past weekend, allowing visitors to build gliders and holding contests for longest flights and best weight carrying capacity.

Brooklyn Aerodrome Reference Design (BARD), glider with remote controls From the Brooklyn Aerodrome blog

Brooklyn Aerodrome was exhibiting at the New York Maker Faire this past weekend, allowing visitors to build gliders and holding contests for longest flights and best weight carrying capacity.

On their blog, Breck Baldwin announced that he’s developing a three part curriculum for middle school students (age 10-14), where they will build a glider, learn about basic remote control and then get introduced to remote controlled, powered airplanes.

In the following video of a Brooklyn Aerodrome schooled student from Tested, you get a sense of how learning to build an airplane can build a young person’s confidence and know how:

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