NOTE: ALL COURSES WILL BE HELD IN OUR DELAWARE SCHOOL LOCATED AT 920 JUSTISON STREET, WILMINGTON, DE 19801

Program Descriptions

M 101 Drone/sUAS Pilot Training Program:

70 hours- Part time 10 weeks @ 7 clock hours/week

DWS Drone School offers a comprehensive training and education aeronautics curriculum on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) which purpose is designed to not only educate, but to enable and encourage students to learn the art and science of drone technology. Students will gain vast knowledge in how they can apply what they learn to obtain careers in this growing industry through classroom instruction, labs, workshops, and demonstration in the field with “hands-on” training. This instruction and materials offer the strategies and information to provide each student the in-depth training designed to create successful and proficient drone pilots. Students will also learn the rules, regulations, and laws, and in particular “Part 107”, which is required by the Federal Aviation Administration for drone operations. Students must take the FAA Part 107 exam to obtain their commercial drone license.

M 102   Boot Camp Drone/sUAS Pilot Training Program:

70 hours- Full Time- 9 consecutive days @ 8 clock hours/day

DWS Boot Camp Drone s/UAS Training Program offers a 9 consecutive day, in-person, intense, expedited comprehensive training and education aeronautics curriculum on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) which purpose is designed to not only educate, but to enable and encourage students to learn the art and science of drone technology. Students will gain vast knowledge in how they can apply what they learn to obtain careers in this growing industry through classroom instruction, labs, workshops, and demonstration in the field with “hands-on” training. These instructions and materials offer the strategies and information to provide each student the in-depth training designed to create successful and proficient drone pilots. Students will also learn the rules, regulations and laws, and in particular “Part 107”, which is required by the Federal Aviation Administration for drone operations. Students must take the FAA Part 107 exam to obtain their commercial drone license.

Pre-Requisites: The targeted population is any student who is at least 18 years of age who has a High School Diploma or G.E.D and a willingness to learn. A laptop is required.

Grade Evaluation:

Measurable Performance Objectives (MPO): Upon course completion the successful student will be capable of:

1. Exhibiting a thorough understanding of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS).
2. Having a thorough knowledge of the rules, regulations and laws, and in particular Part 107, of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with regard to drone operations.
3. Understanding the anatomy of a drone and the various drones currently on the market and what they can and cannot do.
4. Knowledge of the individual components of the drone, both vocabulary and function.
5. Understanding the UAV technology
6. Understanding the principles of flight including Newton’s Laws of Motion, Bernoulli’s Principle, airspeed, gravity and other key topics to help understand flight of the drones.
7. Aeronautical Decision Making (ADM)
8. How to plan an s/UAV flight including pre and post flight procedures
9. Flight safety and assessment of conditions including weather, site issues and other obstructions.
10. Aerial photography and Videography and its concepts including learning about light, shutter speed, lens filters and drone positioning.
11. Creating a “story line” to their videos.
12. Editing their raw data to create a video
13. How to add music and narration to the video.
14. The world of 3-D mapping from the sky through Drone Deploy by creating and calculating measurements for a project.
15. The world of business and how to become a business-person as a drone operator by learning how to generate wealth, how to repair your credit, fix your credit report and increase your credit score, which entity is the best one to start a drone business, the tax benefits of starting your drone business, how to finance your drone business, how to contract with other s/UAS operators and drone businesses and what the legal clauses mean. Students will review a contract for hiring a business and one for their client.
16. How to fly a drone on a simulator.
17. How to fly a drone in the field.
18. Getting all the important links needed to operate your drone.
19. How to get a job as a drone operator.

Method of Instruction:

40% – Lecture

15% – Audio/Visual aids

25% – Lab & Workshop

20% – Field

Total- 100%

Assessment Outcomes:

All assignments, tests, quizzes, and drone performance training will be used to objectively determine if the student has attained a level of competence that enables them to meet the course objectives and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules, regulations and requirements and in particular Part 107 for unmanned aircraft systems to enable them to pass the exam.

The following will be used in providing the objective assessments:

1. Class Attendance
2. Class Participation
3. Flight Participation
4. Quizzes and Tests
5. Drone assimilator training
6. Drone flying
7. Completing assignments

Course Requirements:

1. Reading and understanding the materials provided
2. Successfully completing class homework assignments
3. Successfully completing in-class assignments

TOTAL     100%

M 103 Virtual Reality and 3D Virtualization Training Program

21 hours- Part time- 3 weeks @ 7 clock hours/week    

21 hours- Full time- 3 days @ 7 clock hours/day

DWS Drone School 360 Technology offers a comprehensive training and education curriculum on virtual reality and 3D virtualization systems which purpose is designed to educate, empower, enable, and encourage students to learn the art and science of virtual reality photography workshops and in the field to obtain careers in this growing industry. We will provide expertise and strategies for our students to apply their skills to various lucrative industries such as marketing, photography, security, documentation, and training. Our curriculum will include the technology behind virtual reality, market opportunity, the equipment available, how to create a virtual reality product for a client, etc. This best-in-class instruction and materials offers strategies and information that provides the breadth and depth of instruction to be successful and proficient in virtual reality and learn the best practices, regulations, and laws to offer virtual reality and 3D virtualization services.

Pre-Requisites: The target population is any student who is at least 18 years of age and who also has a High School Diploma or G.E.D and a willingness to learn. Minimum of cell phone or preferably tablet is required.

Grade Evaluation:

Measurable Performance Objectives (MPO): Upon course completion the successful student will be capable of:

1. Exhibiting a thorough understanding of Virtual Reality and 3D Virtualization concepts
2. Understanding the various aspects of the equipment needed and the various cameras currently on the market and what they can and cannot do
3. Understanding the technology of 360 cameras, 3D Scanning Cameras and Software for editing
4. Understanding safety and assessment of conditions including weather, site issues and other obstructions
5. How to plan a VR photoshoot including pre and post capture procedures
6. Photography and Videography and its concepts including learning about light, shutter speed, lens filters and camera positioning
7. Creating a “Natural Flow” to VR captures
8. Editing raw photography to create a higher quality tour
9. How to use VR equipment in various situations in the field
10. How to add music and narration to the videos
11. The world of business and how to become a businessperson as a VR operator by learning how to generate wealth, how to repair their credit, fix their credit report and increase their credit score, which entity is the best one to start a VR business, the tax benefits of starting their VR business, how to finance their VR business

Method of Instruction:

50%- Lecture

20%-Audio/Visual aids 30%-Field

Total-100%

Assessment Outcomes:

All assignments, tests, quizzes and drone performance training will be used to objectively determine if the student has attained a level of competence that enables them to meet the course objectives.

The following will be used in providing the objective assessments:

1. Class Attendance
2. Class Participation
3. Quizzes and Tests
4. Hands on training
5. Equipment usage
6. Completing assignments

Course Requirements:

1. Reading and understanding the materials provided
2. Successfully completing class homework assignments
3. Successfully completing in-class assignments

TOTAL     100%

M 104 Agricultural and Forestry Drone Collected Imagery Training

Program 20 Hours-Full time- 4 days @ 5 clock hours/day

DWS Drone School provides a training course for using small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (s/UAS) in the Agricultural and Forestry industries. In this course, students will gain knowledge in agriculture generally, and skills on how to provide professional drone services and precise analytics to Agricultural producers in the areas of stand count, plant population, plant stress analysis, weed analysis, pest analysis, plant disease analysis, water stress analysis, flowering estimates, and Eagle eye, both in the classroom and in the field.

Pre-Requisites: Each student is required to have taken a drone class previously and have some experience in how to fly a drone to take this class as solely determined by DWS, and

a drone that has the capability to provide mapping such as a DJI Phantom 4, Mavic 2 Pro or Mavic 3 Enterprise or equivalent, with a minimum 4K camera. The student is at least 16 years of age and has a High School Diploma or G.E.D and a willingness to learn. It is highly suggested and highly encouraged that the student have a laptop.

Grade Evaluation:

Measurable Performance Objectives (MPO): Upon course completion, the successful student will be capable of:

1. Understanding industries challenges (Agricultural and Forestry industries)
2. Understanding how Agremo system works – machine learning, AI, computer vision, knowledge base
3. Knowledge of Agremo analyses, their capabilities, and the benefits they provide for the growers (plant counting and plant health analyses)
4. Choosing the perfect time to fly (plant growth stage, time of the day, cloudiness, weather, structure of the field)
5. Setting a flight plan for mapping agricultural field (altitude, overlapping, field boundaries, image resolution)
6. Map requirements – stitching images, GeoTIFF file, a structure of the zip file
7. How to use the Agremo platform (creating a field, uploading a map, request for the analysis, platform features)
8. Reading analyses results (pdf report, shapefile, result map)

Method of instruction:

Lecture – 30%

Workshop – 20%

Field – 50%

Total- 100% Assessment Outcomes:

All assignments, tests, and drone performance training will be used to objectively determine if the student has attained a level of competence that enables them to meet the course objectives and be able to provide services to agricultural producers.

The following will be used in providing objective assessments:

1. Class Attendance
2. Class Participation
3. Flight Participation
4. Drone flying
5. Completing assignments

Course Requirements:

1. A FAA certified Part 107 commercial license (proof required)
2. A DJI Phantom, Mavic pro-2, or Mavic 3 Enterprise or Thermal or better, and which has the ability to do mapping with a minimum 4K camera
3. A laptop
4. Reading and understanding the materials provided
5. Successfully completing class homework assignments
6. Successfully completing in-class assignments
7. Successfully completing in-field assignments

TOTAL 100%