CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Some high school students on the Far South Side were pinned Thursday afternoon as commercially licensed drone pilots.
In a maker’s space within Corliss High School, four of the five newly FAA licensed drone pilots showed off their skills.
Each of the students participated in a summer program at the school, said Phylydia Hudson, the STEM program manager at Corliss.
“It’s also an emerging technology, so we’re interested in having our students have opportunities that are STEM related and also for the workforce of the future,” Hudson noted.
“We imagine in the future that, instead of getting our deliveries, medications and food via automobile, it will possibly be drone,” Hudson added.
The students now operate under the professional title of captain. Among them is 18-year-old Captain A’Janay Lurry, becoming the first female African American commercially licensed drone pilot under the age of 21.
“Personally, I really just want to fly my drones commercially during college, to pay for finances, because I don’t have that financial support,” Lurry said.
Captain Lurry said that she wants to major in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and then start her own business.
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