Unmanned aerial vehicles. Grades 8-9

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2025: Product Announcement

In May 2025, for the first time in Russia, a school textbook on unmanned aviation systems for students in grades 8-9 received official status. Edition "Unmanned aerial vehicles. Grades 8-9 "was included in the federal list of textbooks, which allows schools to centrally purchase it at state expense.

According to TASS, the textbook was prepared by the Geoskan group of companies together with the Prosveshchenie group of companies. The publication has become the only school manual on unmanned aviation systems at the moment, which has passed a state examination.

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The textbook was created to implement the federal initiative "Personnel for unmanned aircraft systems" and is aimed at attracting young people to this area. The publication is intended to study the topic "Unmanned aerial vehicles" within the framework of the invariant module "Robotics" of the subject "Labor (technology)."

The training program is designed for 34 training hours. The textbook can also be used in extracurricular activities and in the system of additional education of schoolchildren.

The contents of the textbook include six main sections:

• "Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft";
• "Classification and device of drones";
• "Electronic component of an unmanned vehicle";
• "Basics of manual piloting";
• " Autonomous Flight Programming";
• "Trends of the profession in the world of drones."

The authors of the textbook were specialists of the Geoskan Group of Companies - Mikhail Lutsky, Dmitry Shvetsov and Sergei Nikolaev. Tasks for schoolchildren are aimed at developing practical skills for working with unmanned aerial vehicles. Mikhail Lutsky, head of the educational projects department of the Geoskan Group of Companies and co-author of the textbook, stressed that the publication is based on fourteen years of experience of the company with drones and eight years of practice in educational robotics. According to him, the textbook does not contain a dry theory, but a proven material in practice.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

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