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Kathleen Martin
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Australia and its ever-booming economy are being hampered by its construction sector suffering from continued pandemic fallout, supply chain disruption, rising material prices, and a deepening shortage of skilled labor. As a remedy to that latter problem, a national education business is using drone technology in classroom-level instruction to encourage students to navigate those aerial assets into surveying careers.
Though education company She Maps supports the teaching of wider STEM learning in schools, its focus on drones has made its programs particularly appealing to students, teachers, and parents seeing employment opportunities in Australia’s surveying and geospatial labor shortage. With thousands of new positions opening up as aging skilled construction employees retire, She Maps is urging schools and pupils to turn the resulting shortfall hampering the building sector to their advantage by placing drone, mapping, surveying, and related data tech in the midst of curricula.
“There is a looming crisis in the construction industry, but She Maps is already ahead of the curve by running our programs in primary and secondary schools for several years,” said She Maps Chief executive officer Paul Mead , who cofounded the company in 2017 with his wife, Karen Joyce. “The aim of our programs is to capture the hearts and minds of students by demonstrating the power of drones and potential career pathways.”
As an effort to accelerate its drone education efforts, She Maps has unveiled its “Partnering for Purpose Model” – a multi-pronged approach with the intention of inspiring future generations of surveying and geospatial experts.
Continue reading: https://dronedj.com/2022/05/23/aussie-company-teaches-drones-in-school-to-remedy-a-worsening-surveyor-shortage/
Though education company She Maps supports the teaching of wider STEM learning in schools, its focus on drones has made its programs particularly appealing to students, teachers, and parents seeing employment opportunities in Australia’s surveying and geospatial labor shortage. With thousands of new positions opening up as aging skilled construction employees retire, She Maps is urging schools and pupils to turn the resulting shortfall hampering the building sector to their advantage by placing drone, mapping, surveying, and related data tech in the midst of curricula.
“There is a looming crisis in the construction industry, but She Maps is already ahead of the curve by running our programs in primary and secondary schools for several years,” said She Maps Chief executive officer Paul Mead , who cofounded the company in 2017 with his wife, Karen Joyce. “The aim of our programs is to capture the hearts and minds of students by demonstrating the power of drones and potential career pathways.”
As an effort to accelerate its drone education efforts, She Maps has unveiled its “Partnering for Purpose Model” – a multi-pronged approach with the intention of inspiring future generations of surveying and geospatial experts.
Continue reading: https://dronedj.com/2022/05/23/aussie-company-teaches-drones-in-school-to-remedy-a-worsening-surveyor-shortage/
