Today, Alfred University faculty from the School of Engineering and the College of Business received an Appalachian Regional Commission grant to educate the local workforce in drone repair and maintenance, flight operations leading to a commercial drone flight license, and in entrepreneurship skills leading to business creation. The students will then work with local farmers by using drones to help increase crop yield and health.
We want to publicly acknowledge all the new friends we met on this journey and who supported us in this project, specifically:
- Allegany County Farm Bureau
- Allegany County Office of Planning
- Brown Property Development
- Business students from Alfred University School of Business
- Congressman Tom Reed, US House Representative, 23rd District, NY
- Cornell University Cooperative Extension Allegany County
- Dean of the Alfred University, College of Professional Studies
- Dean of the Alfred University, Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering
- Engineering students from Alfred University Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering
- Hunt Real Estate
- IncubatorWorks
- Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce
- Western New York Regional Economic Development Council
We will need your continued support to make this project a success, and to use it as a platform to educate our students, and to attract drone research and commercialization to our community.
Thank you all, Fiat Lux!