Sedgrid Lewis is Founding father of The Hidden Pilot Venture. The mission of The Hidden Pilot Venture is to show and practice black returning residents and residents underneath the supervision of the felony justice system learn how to turn into licensed drone pilots. By means of The Hidden Pilot Venture, people are supplied with hands-on coaching to enter the unmanned methods trade.
Sedgrid Lewis holds an MA in Criminology from the College of West Georgia. He has labored within the felony justice area for the previous 20 years growing evidenced based mostly social applications for juvenile courts and state companies throughout america. He’s additionally the proprietor of Blackhawk Aerial LLC. As a component 107 industrial drone pilot, he has flown for a number of nationwide development corporations offering development aerial images.
Sedgrid has devoted himself to serving to others expertise the advantages of unmanned know-how. He offers drone know-how workshops for at-risk youth throughout the state of Georgia. He’s additionally an authorized teacher and coach for US Drone Soccer, which is changing into a fast-growing sport at the highschool and school degree. And, because the son of a third-generation farmer, Sedgrid companions with black farmers throughout the south to offer technical coaching and farm drone know-how demonstrations. Sedgrid promotes precision agriculture in an effort to maintain black farms and enhance revenue margins.
On this episode of the Drone Radio Present, Segrid introduces us to The Hidden Pilot Venture, drone soccer and the way each are serving to folks from marginalized communities enter the aviation area.
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