Itinerary

The itinerary for Drone Fest 2019 is shown below. Please be aware that this itinerary is subject to change based on weather.

Dronefest 2019

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

  • 5:30 pm – Potential group dinner and open flight for early arrivals.

Thursday, July 25, 2019 – in Benton Hall 213

  • 8:00 am – Coffee and bagels
  • 9:00 am – Urban Anthropology City Bike Path Planning: From flight instruction to for tracking bicycles in cities (Boston and across India).
  • 10:00 am – Water Sampling Drone Project – A summer pilot with Boston public high school students to collect Automated water sampling of the Charles River in collaboration with BC professor Mike Barnett
  • 11:30 am – Lunch
  • 1:00 pm – Data Collection Methods: Overview of the various ways to collect data and their applications. Weather permitting we will go and acquire data as a group.
  • 2:00 pm – Break
  • 2:15 pm – General Discussion and Updates on Hackflight: Updates from Simon Levy on the Hackflight project and an opportunity to ask and share questions and ideas of the group.
  • 3:15 pm – Closing remarks.

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