A cooperative program between several schools at the university's campus hosted students from Troy and Hudson high schools last week to get hands-on lessons in technology used for homeland security.
A select group of high school students took a trip to a lab on the University Albany downtown campus Thursday to learn how to fly drones and use them against security attacks. "The goal is to get them interested and having hands-on experience and determining if this is the field they want to go in," said Dr. Marcie Fraser, instructor for New Visions Questar III and an adjunct professor at UAlbany's College of Emergency Preparedness. "Homeland security and the protection of homeland security is our goal, to teach them how to work effectively to counter terrorism and to identify terrorism," Fraser added.
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A select group of high school students took a trip to a lab on the University Albany downtown campus Thursday to learn how to fly drones and use them against security attacks. "The goal is to get them interested and having hands-on experience and determining if this is the field they want to go in," said Dr. Marcie Fraser, instructor for New Visions Questar III and an adjunct professor at UAlbany's College of Emergency Preparedness. "Homeland security and the protection of homeland security is our goal, to teach them how to work effectively to counter terrorism and to identify terrorism," Fraser added.
Continue reading: https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/high-schoolers-learn-to-fly-drones-at-university-of-albany
