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Field Reporting Flight School 101

February 12, 2013 by Jaime Cooke Leave a Comment
Palley Practices

Palley Practices

Stuart Palley practices controlling the drones flight patterns as other field reporting students watch. Photo by Sally French

Cleavelin Centers

Cleavelin Centers

Cade Cleavelin centers the drone in center of the arena before another student steer’s into the air. Photo by Sally French

Gwen Flies

Gwen Flies

Gwen Girsdansky hesitantly takes control over the drone for the first time as Gibbons assists her. Photo by Sally French

Cleavelin Poses

Cleavelin Poses

Cleavelin poses during flight training in the Trowbridge Livestock Arena. Photo by Sally French

Brendan and Cade

Brendan and Cade

Brendan Gibbons and Cade Cleavelin (left) study the drone before practicing flying in the Trowbridge Livestock Arena. Photo by Sally French

Bill Remote

Bill Remote

Professor Bill Allen handles the drone remote in his second test flight. Photo by Sally Frenc

Hesitant  Gwen

Hesitant Gwen

Gwen Girsdansky hesitantly takes control over the drone for the first time as Gibbons assists her. Photo by Sally French

Shocked Emily

Shocked Emily

Emily Garnett looks out in shock as she steers the drone into the bleachers. Photo by Sally French

Cleavelin Navigating

Cleavelin Navigating

Cleavelin confidently navigates the drone around the arena. Photo by Sally French

 

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About

The Missouri Drone Journalism Program is a partnership between students at the Missouri School of Journalism, the University of Missouri Information Technology Program and NPR member station KBIA

Scott Pham

Scott Pham is the director and founder of the Missouri Drone Journalism Program. His career in public radio has spanned from San Francisco to Washington, DC to here in Columbia, Missouri where he serves as the Content Director for KBIA.org. Pham will edit and publish some of the work the graduate class produces.

Matthew Dickinson

Matthew Dickinson is a System Administrator and Instructor for the Information Technology Program and Computer Science department. He manages the instructional infrastructure for the department. Courses taught by him include Unix Operating System, Data Communications and Networking, Security for Web Applications and Systems, Network Fundamentals, Database Administration, System Prototyping with Hardware and Software and, Computer System Administration. Dickinson currently runs the IT Program Drone Lab and investigates various drone technologies. In his spare time, he is interested in research in networking, system security, embedded systems.

Bill Allen

Bill Allen, Assistant Professor of Science Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia since 2004, has a joint appointment in the Missouri School of Journalism and the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. He served 25 years as a journalist, specializing in science, environment and medical reporting. He now teaches several field-reporting “immersion” courses, including a study abroad program in Costa Rica. He was a 1996-97 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is author of Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica (Oxford University Press, 2001).

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