Take your teaching to new heights at this hands-on NJAAPT workshop! You’ll learn how to safely and skilfuly fly and maintain a mini drone, explore a variety of classroom-ready physics demonstrations, and leave with your very own Holy Stone HS210 drone to bring black to your students.
By the end of the morning, you’ll have the confidence (and unofficial bragging rights!) to say you’ve earned your Classroom Drone Pilot License — plus several great new ways to make physics fly in your classroom.
Workshop Activities
a) Flight Training: Learn to take off, hover, land, and use circle mode and 3D flips.
b) Drone Care: Practice swapping batteries, changing propellers, and basic calibration.
c) Physics Demonstrations:
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Hovering and balanced forces (auto hover mode)
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Newton’s laws and acceleration
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Newton’s 3rd Law with “drone-in-a-box” scale demo
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Conservation of Angular Momentum – how drones turn by speeding up and slowing down opposing propeller pairs
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Payload and energy challenge
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Circular motion using the HS210’s circle mode—showing the outward tilt that visually demonstrates centripetal force
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Classroom Applications: Adapting drone demos for a variety of classroom settings and learning goals.
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Friendly Flight Challenges: Landing pad accuracy and obstacle course trials.
Each Participant Will Take Home
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A Holy Stone HS210 mini drone (includes 3 batteries, charger, and prop guards)
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A Quick-Start Care Sheet
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A Physics Demonstration Guide
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A Certificate of Classroom Drone Pilot License
Refreshments will be served.
Registration Details
With a few exceptions, NJAAPT events are open only to current members. If you are not yet a member, please visit our website to join before registering.
Payment: Only credit card or PayPal payments will be accepted. When you register, you will see a PayPal screen, but you may choose to pay by regular credit card.
Important: If you register without completing payment, you will receive an invoice by email. If payment is not received within 15 minutes, your registration will be automatically canceled.
Parking: Available in the lot behind Montclair High School. Detailed directions and contact information will be emailed to attendees the week before the event.