SAN ANTONIO – The Dee Howard Foundation is bringing a commercial drone program to different schools around Bexar County.

“The Dee Howard Foundation’s Mission quite frankly has always been to help bring opportunities to our local youth for careers in aerospace, not just today but into the future,” said Tyler Schroeder, chairman of the Dee Howard Foundation.

Schroeder, who also works at Boeing, said the program is in 12 schools across eight school districts.

“As part of the program not only are they earning a part 107 license, which allows them to commercially operate a drone, which there is a whole list of benefits that come with that, including the ability to go commercially earn money while using that drone. But it also exposes them to a whole world of unmanned aerial systems and the regulation that comes with that,” Schroeder said.

Michael Sorola teaches the program at South San High School and also had to get his license to teach the course.

“Doing this and going through that whole process has opened their eyes to a lot of the different things they can do in aerospace,” Sorola said.