Flying drones in and around stadiums that seat 30,000 people or more is prohibited by law beginning one hour before and ending one hour after the scheduled time of any of the following events: Major League Baseball Game National Football League Game NCAA Division One Football Game NASCAR Sprint Cup, Indy Car, and Champ Series …
The National Center for Autonomous Technologies (NCAT) and the Women And Drones network have formed a new partnership. The organizations are partnering to focus on expanding to address advancing STEM education. NCAT leaders utilize best practices to recruit underrepresented groups and support their entry to the STEM field. “We are thrilled about the opportunity to …
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The Federal Aviation Administration has announced new rules for drone operators that will ease restrictions on the overall use of drones and address security concerns making drones easier to track. The updated regulations announced by the Federal Aviation Administration “get us closer to the day when we will more routinely see drone operations such as …
Beings the National Center for Autonomous Technologies home base is in northern Minnesota, it’s no surprise that we get asked questions about best practices for drone cold weather operations. We teamed up with our industry partner – SkySkopes, whose headquarters are in Minot, North Dakota to get tips from their team of highly qualified operators. …
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Faculty and students at community colleges across the Commonwealth will continue to learn how to operate unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and collect and analyze geospatial data. The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is leading a statewide partnership to develop the geospatial technology and UAS workforce in Virginia. The new award of $561,977 from the National …
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected Northland’s Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) Technician program for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Collegiate Training Program (UAS-CTI). Launched in April of this year, the UAS-CTI is a result of the 2018 FAA Reorganization Act which required the establishment of a collegiate training initiative program relating to unmanned aircraft systems …
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Northland Community and Technical College has partnered with the Pennington County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) to evaluate 50 county ditches as they empty into the three rivers in Pennington County. BWSR is an agency that oversees the County SWCD’s in Minnesota. Both BWSR and SWCD are …
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The National Center for Autonomous Technologies (NCAT) was proud to sponsor the 1st ever RAD Aerial Drone Competition in the Nation! This event took place in conjunction with the VEX Robotics Minnesota State Championship at the River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud, MN on Friday, January 31st. The teams racing in the RAD …
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