{"id":25471,"date":"2018-02-15T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25471"},"modified":"2018-02-15T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T06:25:04","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-college-of-stem-starts-drone-racing-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/02\/15\/austin-peay-state-university-college-of-stem-starts-drone-racing-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University College of STEM starts Drone Racing Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; On a recent, sunny afternoon, a small aircraft buzzed past flapping banners on the Austin Peay State University intramural field. The pilot, wearing a pair of virtual reality glasses, stood several feet away, maneuvering a quadcopter drone around a series of obstacles with a remote control.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_412708\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APSU-College-of-STEM-starts-Drone-Racing-Team.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-412708\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-412708\" title=\"Austin Peay starts Drone Racing team to promote the College of STEM.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APSU-College-of-STEM-starts-Drone-Racing-Team-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay starts Drone Racing team to promote the College of STEM.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-412708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay starts Drone Racing team to promote the College of STEM.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the aircraft landed safely in the grass, bringing an end to the first official flight for APSU\u2019s new drone racing team. The team, a collaboration between the College of STEM\u2019s Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy and the college\u2019s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Center, will eventually participate in Collegiate Drone Racing Association competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s cooler than racing drones,\u201d Bryan Gaither, lab manager for the APSU Department of Physics, Engineering, and Astronomy, said. \u201cWe want to promote the College of STEM and the department all while having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The College of STEM recently purchased five drones for the team. To make sure the team knew what it was doing, they enlisted the GIS Center for help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGIS has used the drones for mostly mapping projects over the year, but we want more students and departments to take advantage and become familiar with drones,\u201d Doug Catellier, GIS project manager, said. \u201cWe hope by starting a team it draws this attention, and we can compete and show how fun it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the team, contact the APSU GIS Center at 931.221.7500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; On a recent, sunny afternoon, a small aircraft buzzed past flapping banners on the Austin Peay State University intramural field. The pilot, wearing a pair of virtual reality glasses, stood several feet away, maneuvering a quadcopter drone around a series of obstacles with a remote control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,30582,15527,26537,31579,2638,262,16712,825,2648,31578],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6CP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}