See, Watermelon harvest delayed but in time for July 4<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nHe talked about the various sciences \u2013 geology, biology, astronomy and more.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody can know it all,\u201d Auvermann told them. \u201cBut you can make a good living being one of the people who tries to figure out how the world works. These are called researchers. That\u2019s what I am, a researcher. I spend my entire life trying to answer questions. Then I hand the answers off to somebody else and go find another question to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Auvermann said even though drone-based research makes up only about 5% of the Amarillo center\u2019s research portfolio, drones make it easy to connect to youth because they\u2019re fun to fly, and the drones help scientists get research-grade information. <\/p>\n
Auvermann\u2019s team demonstrated the drones flying and the sensors on them, including letting the youth watch what the drone sees in regular color and thermal infrared view.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully we can get some of these kids excited about a career in some kind of scientific or engineering research, learning more about the world around them,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if they can find a career in that, every day will be a brand-new day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an effort to excite youth about agricultural research, Dr. Brent Auvermann and his team recently took their unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, to Drone Camp at Amarillo College.<\/p>\n
Auvermann, director for the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Amarillo, has been using drones and advanced technology in his Texas A&M AgriLife Research air quality program and other research endeavors.<\/p>\n
Dr. Brent Auvermann, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center director at Amarillo, talks to the Drone Camp participants at Amarillo College. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe love to participate in anything that gets kids fired up about science, technology, engineering and mathematics,\u201d Auvermann said.<\/p>\n
He, along with his AgriLife Research team, drone pilots Jack Bush, a senior research associate, and Clayton Goodwin, a research technician, brought quadcopters and other instruments to the program to show nearly 60 youth who attended the camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many of you like to figure things out when you are at home?\u201d Au..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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