[caption id="attachment_17772" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Pilot Jordan Bates talks about the ATOM 4000 Drone. ATOM = Aerial To Online Media. A few minutes later the attendees posed for Drone Selfie.[/caption]

Delaware Technical Community College, drone pilots/professionals, and industry experts gathered earlier this month for presentations and live indoor drone flight demonstrations.

The event informed attendees about the future and promise of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) or "drones" in Delaware. Witness the power of UAS technology and its potential and application in commerce, agriculture, government and consumer usage.

Guest speakers for the event included: Jordan Bates, aviator, UAS pilot and expert, former NASA research consultant and develop lead; Shyam Chidamber, Ph.D., business executive, entrepreneur and educator; founding director of the Center for Information Technology and the Global Economy at American University, Christopher Quick, robotics engineer, founder and CEO of Realbotics Inc., and Mark Ryan, of Ryan Media Lab Inc. who conducted its #DronesForDelaware program at each of DTCC campuses on March 14.

For more information check out the social media posts #DronesForDelaware.