School Pupils Engineered UAV Together with SUSU Students and Teachers

May 24th at SUSU, pupils of Academic Lyceum No.95 defended a project on engineering an unmanned aerial vehicle for ecological survey and presented the UAV model.

The research work and practical work with the school pupils was carried out within the All-Russian Educational Project "Sirius. Summer" aimed at searching for and implementing of research and engineering projects by pupils under guidance of their mentors. Chelyabinsk Radio Plant Polet suggested the projects' topics for the pupils of Lyceum No.95.

"This project is very important in terms of quality training of specialists for a certain enterprise. It was initiated jointly with Lyceum No.95. 2 years ago and is being successfully implemented today. We would like to express our deep gratitude to South Ural State University because practically the whole process of training the pupils was fulfilled namely by the university students and teaching staff: they organized the mentoring and various events, provided the laboratory facilities and the scientific advisory," shared Kira Glebova, Director of the "Smart City. Digital Region" Competence Centre of Chelyabinsk Radio Plant Polet.

Students and staff of South Ural State University acted as the mentors for the pupils' team. They guided the pupils all through the project defence, shared their experience and helped in the UAV engineering.

"First we set the task, formed the technical assignment, and started introducing the pupils to the basics of UAV designing. We may say that 90% of the currently presented results were contributed by the pupils. We only acted as guides, shared our knowledge and experience, and tried to amend things that didn't go quite as they planned," explained the pupils' team mentor and engineer of the Laboratory for Launch Vehicles and Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles Dmitrii Antonov.

The relevance of the topic chosen by the school pupils can be explained by the fact that the Chelyabinsk Region pays much attention to ecological problems. So, the pupils set themselves a task to engineer a UAV for ecological survey, which could measure the CO2 data, environment temperature, atmospheric pressure and radiation in the air in order to reveal the ecological problems in the environment.

The theoretical classes were held at Academic Lyceum No.95 and South Ural State University with the participation of the university students and teaching staff. The school pupils mastered the Kompas 3D program, using which each pupil created a model of the UAV wing. Next, using a 3D printer at the SUSU laboratory they printed the parts for the future UAV.

"This project turned out to be quite an interesting one for me. I think it's a great chance to learn something new – broaden the horizon and try one's hand at something new," said the project participant, 10th-form pupil of Academic Lyceum No.95 Iuliana Abdrakhmanova.

During the next academic year, the teachers, mentors and project participants plan on continuing the work on fitting the engineered UAV with additional modules: cameras, environmental sensors and different systems for measuring the specific features of the environment.

 

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