May is here, and it’s the perfect time to wrap up the school year with hands-on STEM, CTE, and computer science activities. As the weather warms and summer approaches, teachers are looking for creative, low-prep ways to celebrate seasonal events like Star Wars Day, Memorial Day, and end-of-year milestones—all while keeping students engaged.

These drone-based coding activities are adaptable for elementary, middle, and high school learners—whether you're using block-based coding like Blockly or taking it further with Python.

✨ Featured May Drone Activities

🛸 May the 4th: Star Wars Day

Activity: “Drone Jedi Training” Course
Turn your classroom or gym into a Jedi academy! Students can guide drones through a series of simple flight challenges that simulate Jedi trials—like obstacle dodging, target landings, and precision flying.

Fun ways to bring Stars Wars into your classroom:

• Bring the sounds of Star Wars into your classroom with this YouTube playlist or this Spotify playlist.

• Set the Star Wars mindset by assigning roles for students to play while working in their groups:

• Jedi Master (group leader)

• Padawan (learner)

• Protocol Droid (note taker)

• Starship Engineer (tech helper)

• Take your lesson objectives and give them a Star Wars spin: 

• "Mission Briefing" = Learning objectives

• "Training Simulation" = Practice

• "Jedi Trials" = Assessment or challenge activity
  
  

🪖 May 30: Memorial Day (Observed)

Activity: Symbolic Flight Path
Have students code drones to fly in a pattern that represents the U.S. flag or a star to honor fallen heroes. You can use colored LED lights on the drones or fly over paper designs placed on the floor.

Use this Blockly lesson or this Python lesson to change the colors on your CoDrone EDU. Accept the challenge by doing these lessons for advanced features in Blockly and PyCharm.

☀️ End-of-Year & Summer-Themed Drone Activities

🏖️ “Fly Into Summer” Obstacle Course

Celebrate the start of summer break with a themed drone course! Use summer-themed items or cutouts of suns, beach balls, sunglasses, and popsicles to build an engaging flight path.

Cost effective obstacles:

• Hula hoops

• Classroom chairs/desks

• Cones

• Create cut outs using trifold posters 

• Pool noodles

• Here is how you can create your very own cage!
  
  

Up the STEM in your lesson: Students will time their runs and then graph it on a coordinate plane.

🌍 “Where in the World?” Vacation Teasers

Students will use drones to fly to specific coordinates on a coordinate plane on the floor that represent locations from around the world. 

Here’s how: 

Prepare the Space:

• Select a large, flat area, free of obstacles. This could be the floor of your classroom, gym, or outdoor space.
  
  

Create the Axes:

• Use masking tape to create a horizontal line (x-axis) and a vertical line (y-axis) on the floor. The intersection of the two lines represents the origin (0, 0).

• Help your students out by labeling the x-axis with positive and negative numbers (e.g., from -10 to +10) and the y-axis with positive and negative numbers as well.

Determine Coordinated Related to Real-World Locations:

Choose real-world locations that you want the students to "visit" with their drones. For example, you could select famous landmarks like:

• Eiffel Tower (Paris)

• Great Wall of China (Beijing)

• Sydney Opera House (Australia)
  Taj Mahal (India)

Determine what their location would be on the coordinate plane you’ve created on the floor. Imagine you’ve split the world into the 4 quadrants to help assign these coordinates. For example, the Eiffel Tower might be located at (8, 6) on your grid where as the Sydney Opera House might be located at (-5, -9).

Up the STEAM in this lesson: Students design a postcard from one of the landmarks they visited with their drone, and write a message, describing the location and why it’s significant.

📚 Don’t Forget: Robolink's Curriculum is Ready for You

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:

• Scaffolded lessons for Blockly and Python
  
  

• Curriculum aligned with NGSS and CSTA standards
  
  

• 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.

Whether you're wrapping up your school year or getting a head start on summer programs, these drone activities will keep students energized, collaborative, and learning through flight.

Ready to take off? Let us know how you’re using drones in your classroom—we’d love to feature your ideas.