Engage your students in STEM from Day 1 - no prep required.

Back-to-school season is the perfect time to build excitement, foster classroom community, and introduce real-world tech skills. With CoDrone EDU, you can launch into hands-on, project-based learning right away with no drone experience required.

These easy, low-lift activities help students explore drone movement, coding logic, and collaborative problem solving, all while having fun.

Want more? Dive into our free, standards-aligned curriculum at learn.robolink.com.

1. Name That Drone!

Students give their drone a name and a backstory, then program it to perform a simple “hello” flight—like a wave, spin, or hop.

Skills Introduced:

• Takeoff and landing

• Movement commands (roll, pitch, yaw, throttle)

• Intro to block-based or text-based coding

It’s STEM made creative and simple. Naming their drone helps students build connection and ownership, and the intro flight is a fun way to showcase their first line of code. Personalization boosts student buy-in and turns coding into storytelling.

2. School Supply Drop

Students “deliver” school supplies to target areas (taped squares, desks, or bins) using controlled flight.

Skills Introduced:

• Estimating distance

• Takeoff and landing precision

• Conditional statements (optional)

It's fun, fast, and builds spatial reasoning—plus it easily adapts to your classroom layout. You can even turn it into a team challenge or timed activity.

3. Find Your Classroom

Set up a mini "school map" where drones start at the front office and fly to labeled “classrooms” around the room.

Skills Introduced:

• Grid or coordinate-based movement

• Angles and directional turns

• Logic and mapping

This reinforces school routines in a new and exciting way.  It helps students visualize drone flight as a navigational challenge—and ties into the school theme. You can scale it up by turning the room into a mini campus or scale it down for table-top missions.

4. Who’s in Your Flight Crew?

Students discover their role in a fictional “flight crew” based on their interests and strengths. This can be a lead-in to deeper exploration or long-term team roles.

Flight Crew Roles:

1. Aero – The Pilot: Master of flight and control

2. Byte – The Coder: Automation through Blockly or Python

3. Talon – The Engineer: Keeps the drone systems working

4. Glide – The Navigator: Maps and plans routes

5. Prism – The Analyst: Gathers and interprets drone data

Students start to see themselves in future STEM roles all while you get insight into how they’ll best engage.

Don’t Forget: Robolink's Curriculum is FREE

Did you know Robolink offers a full, standards-aligned drone curriculum? Developed by real educators with classroom experience, our content is designed to seamlessly integrate into STEM and CTE programs—unlike many other drone companies that outsource or skip curriculum altogether.

You’ll find:

1. Scaffolded lessons for Blockly and Python

2. Curriculum aligned with ISTE and CSTA standards
   

3. Resources for both in-person and hybrid learning

Check it out at learn.robolink.com and give your students an engaging, hands-on learning experience they won’t forget.