Drone flying and coding now mandatory in 1,200+ Chinese vocational schools
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-10-06
Per AsiaNews citing CGTN, drone piloting and programming has become one of the most popular extracurricular activities among Chinese teenagers and is now mandatory in the curricula of more than 1,200 technical middle and high schools.
In the replies, a commenter says the story inspired plans to build a homeschooling robotics curriculum around Reachy-Mini, a micro duck robot, and a drone.
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