High School Students Use Drones for Art

Photo credit: Drew Halverson Drones are more commercial than ever, but many people still associate them with war. Yes, UAVs are used in warfare, but a group of students in Nashville, TN, show they can also be used for good. According to a blog post by Michael D Mitchell, a Maplewood High School art teacher, MHS students are using drone technology to explore ways to create rather than destroy. With the help of Maha Chishty and Addie Wagenknecht’s artwork, students are learning to think of UAVs as expressive rather than oppressive, explains Mitchell’s post. “They both have been gracious in their willingness to engage with MHS young artists to push the idea of using drones to create instead of destroy and to fuel thinking and questioning so that students might arrive at strong driving questions that will yield great art and viable solutions that they will present to a public ...