Students will use data collected by drones to coordinate cleanup efforts after a hurricane. They will develop a method to rank locations with downed trees blocking roads based on their potential impact on safety or recovery operations.

This is an open-ended engineering design lesson where students will develop a model to help them solve a problem. There are no “right” answers as the lesson is focused on the process of developing a solution and the skills and reasoning behind the process. Students should be given the freedom to interpret the problem and parameters in unique ways to pursue their own lines of thinking in producing a solution.