library and classrooms may be closed , but one schoolhouse bibliothec has found a way to get Book to her students while they ’re stuck at home . AsThe Washington Postreports , Virginia ’s Montgomery County public school district is sending kids their summer meter reading via drones .
Kelly Passek , a bibliothec at Blacksburg Middle School , has been campaigning for dawdler delivery in her dominion since before theCOVID-19pandemic . Virginia is one of the few places where Google ’s drone caller Wing has permission from theFAAto make commercial-grade deliveries . Wing ’s bourdon count 10 hammer each and can deliver packages count up to 3 pound at a speed of70 mph .
Passek come out using Wing for personal deliveries in the fall of 2019 and like a shot saw how much her school could benefit from the divine service . When schools closed in March to slack the spread of the new coronavirus , the need to get resources to students quickly and safely became a weightlift government issue .
During the last few month , Montgomery County schoolhouse buses have hand over books and meal to scholar learning remotely . class have end , but with public library still closed , the district will employ drones to continue the book deliveries . If they inhabit in Wing ’s Christiansburg delivery zone , Thomas Kyd can request the book they ’d like to read via a Google Doc . Passek will then look for the book in the schooling district ’s libraries , and if she regain it , she ’ll package it and bring it to Wing ’s legal transfer quickness .
The drone deliveries are dissipated and contactless , and unlike record book from brick - and - mortarlibraries , they do n’t come with strictdue date . or else , students will be able to yield their depository library Word when school resumes in the fall .
[ h / tThe Washington Post ]
