{"id":17569,"date":"2021-01-29T22:57:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=17569"},"modified":"2021-01-29T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T22:57:24","slug":"sweetwater-union-adult-education-drone-program-flies-in-the-face-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/unmanned-systems\/sweetwater-union-adult-education-drone-program-flies-in-the-face-of-the-pandemic\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Sweetwater Union Adult Education Drone Program Flies in the Face of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sweetwater Union High School Adult Education program,\nlocated in San Diego County, is always looking for new and exciting curriculum\nofferings for their students that will provide them with valuable career opportunities.  Such was the case when Sweetwater District\nAdult Education Director, Dr. Ryan Burke, sought to bring in the Unmanned\nSafety Institute\u2019s award-winning curriculum into his program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sweetwater UAS students Armando Garcia and Ellejon Hernandez perform flight training at the Silent Electric Flyers Club in Mission Bay.<\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Burke had identified Mary Alvarado, an experienced Adult\nEducation teacher, to lead this program. \nBoth Dr. Burke and Ms. Alvarado recognized that unmanned aviation\nsystems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, was an industry ripe for\nexplosive growth, creating a need for many qualified drone pilots, or \u201cRemote Operators\u201d\nas referred to by the FAA. Dr. Burke and Ms. Alvarado were very impressed with\nthe fully turn-key curriculum solution offered by the Unmanned Safety Institute\n(USI).  Ms. Alvarado utilized the USI\nInstructor Training offering and became a USI Certified Instructor.  Dr. Burke stated, \u201cUSI\u2019s program provided us\nwith an ACE accredited curriculum supported by either printed or digital\ntextbooks and workbooks, Certified Instructor Training, and online learning modules\nthat were professionally designed and developed to maximize our student\u2019s\nsuccess\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original plan was to have Ms. Alvarado instruct the\nprogram at the Sweetwater Union High School District (SUHSD) facility in\nNational City, CA and in the middle of the Spring 2020 semester, along came\nCovid-19 and all the disruptions brought on by this highly contagious\npandemic.  Beginning in April 2020, Ms.\nAlvarado modified the delivery of the USI Safety Certificate, Level One course\nfrom on-site instruction to a hybrid model using the USI Learning Management\nSystem along with Zoom web-conferencing software to continue the program.  \u201cI was immediately so impressed and proud of\nour 25 students for their willingness to accept these modifications, which was\nnew and unfamiliar to almost all of them. \nI credit the flexibility of the USI offering and could not be prouder of\nthe commitment from our students and the excellent results they achieved via\nthe completion of the program utilizing our hybrid approach to course\ndelivery\u201d, added Mary Alvarado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So successful was the outcome of this offering, that many of\nthe students went on to take and pass their FAA Part 107 Certification test,\nqualifying them to perform commercial drone operations within the FAA\u2019s\napproved regulatory framework.  One of\nthe students has accepted employment as a full-time UAS Remote Operator for a\nlocal company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweetwater Union High School Adult Education program, located in San Diego County, is always looking for new and exciting curriculum offerings for their students that will provide them with valuable career opportunities.  Such was the case when Sweetwater District Adult Education Director, Dr. Ryan Burke, sought to bring in the Unmanned Safety Institute\u2019s award-winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unmanned-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17571,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions\/17571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}