About a dozen children shuffled down a blue-green hallway into a well-lit classroom on the South Side of San Antonio on a recent Friday afternoon, giddy with excitement as they sat at tables — each with a small white drone at the center.
Guided by an instructor, Eugene Jimenez, the students worked together to explore the parts of the drone, learned how to pair it with a controller and flew the small gadgets around the room in a scene that soon devolved into controlled chaos.
“Never hurry, never worry,” Jimenez advised students as one drone flew under a table and out of sight, and another blew stray papers to the ground.
“Remember, failure is a first attempt in learning,” he added.
Within a few minutes, the drones stabilized, hovering quietly above the square brown desks as the mostly third- and fourth-grade students beamed with pride, taking turns maneuvering…
