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Shippensburg High School STEM team heads to state finals with agricultural drone project
Summary
Fowler’s STEM team advanced to the Pennsylvania governor’s STEM challenge state finals with a prototype agricultural drone that uses an NDVI sensor to map plant health; students seek a heavy-lift drone to demonstrate flight at Penn State.
Fowler’s high-school STEM team presented its Eros X agricultural-drone project to the board after the budget discussion, saying the team qualified for the governor’s STEM challenge state finals for the first time in school history and will travel to Penn State on April 29–30.
The project: students described a prototype quadcopter system that uses an NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) sensor and a Raspberry Pi compute module to capture overhead images and estimate plant-health variations in farm fields.…
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