How Drones Are Making an Impact on Humanitarian Efforts

In the past few years, the use of drones in humanitarian efforts has greatly increased the ability to help those that are suffering from natural disasters. This means that an understanding of the effective use of drones is a very important topic to cover in our college prep boarding schools. Giving our students a working knowledge of how we are currently using drones will help them to apply their creativity as to how we can continue to use them to better our society in the future. 

Drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have not only been used to deliver supplies to victims of natural disasters, but they have also been used to deliver vaccines to countries that are suffering from diseases such as malaria. Because they are able to build 3D maps of areas that have been struck by disaster, drones are able to provide a deeper look into where survivors are located, as well as the degree of structural damage to the city. This is important because it severely lowers the danger brought to people deployed in the rescue process and allows them to make more informed decisions regarding what approach to take next. 

It is clear that the use of drones has potential to change the way that we approach a lot of things as far as humanitarian efforts go. Students in our college prep boarding schools have the tools and the knowledge to do great things with this drone technology. All we need to do is not get in the way of ourselves. Applying more drone and technology-related classes as well as humanitarian classes may be just what is needed to spark the interest of those future engineers, scientists and humanitarians. 

By making sure our students understand and have a good grasp on the humanitarian efforts around the world, we foster an atmosphere of diversity and tolerance in our upcoming generation — and put the focus not just on ourselves in the United States, on people around the world who are in need of help.

One way to implement a curriculum based around drone technology in our college prep boarding schools is to make an effort to provide real, top-of-the-line drones for school use so that the students can actually see them in action. Any students that gravitate toward this type of engineering and humanitarian work can then move on after their coursework in their college prep boarding schools to higher education at a university, where they will be able to gain more insight and education based around the implementation of drones in humanitarian work.

Tyler Davis is an academic writer for Fusion 360, an SEO and content marketing agency. Information provided by Wasatch Academy. Follow on Twitter.