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Birmingham area girls building drones at Southern Research Share Updated: 10:13 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021 Fred Davenport Share Updated: 10:13 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021
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Show Transcript here at Southern Research in Birmingham. These young ladies are getting a taste of the aviation world this week. They are participating in a drone academy. It s centered around science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We learn how to do different um design processes with engineering. Like we designed our drone this week, we had to measure all of the different parts like the propellers, the batteries, kumari mars. It is a rising senior at Ramsey High School. She and these other young ladies are part of a group called Girls inc. The group provides mentorships and they fight for opportunities and rights for all girls. This week they re learning how to build drones are first prototype didn t work because our motors didn t reach like the battery pa