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 beneath the supervision of the felony justice system how you can change into licensed drone pilots. By means of The Hidden Pilot Venture, people are supplied with hands-on coaching to enter the unmanned programs trade.
Sedgrid Lewis holds an MA in Criminology from the College of West Georgia. He has labored within the felony justice discipline for the previous 20 years creating evidenced based mostly social packages for juvenile courts and state businesses throughout the US. He’s additionally the proprietor of Blackhawk Aerial LLC. As an element 107 industrial drone pilot, he has flown for a number of nationwide building corporations offering development aerial photographs.
Sedgrid has devoted himself to serving to others expertise the advantages of unmanned expertise. He supplies drone expertise workshops for at-risk youth throughout the state of Georgia. He’s additionally an authorized teacher and coach for US Drone Soccer, which is turning into a fast-growing sport at the highschool and faculty stage. And, because the son of a third-generation farmer, Sedgrid companions with black farmers throughout the south to offer technical coaching and farm drone expertise demonstrations. Sedgrid promotes precision agriculture to be able to maintain black farms and improve 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 individuals from marginalized communities enter the aviation discipline.
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