The Aerial Fair is an educational project that gathers technology and creativity so young people who are between 12 and 18 years old learn to build drones with an educational goal that helps to social development. It will be celebrated this Friday 19 in the School of Engineering (ETSEV) of the Universitat de València. The drones have been built by students of 63 Valencian high schools and schools and more than 1000 students will participate in the event between 09:00 and 14:30.

The 3rd Aerial Fair will count with three different spaces inside the Burjassot Campus. The first one will be composed by 63 stands belonging to each one of the centres and where students will exhibit their drones and posters with the proposed applications. The second space has three rooms that will work in a simultaneous way and in which each centre will publicly exhibit the social advantages of its project, and the third is the pitch in which flying displays will be made.

The presentation act of the Aerial Fair will be at 12 in the Assembly Hall of the School of Engineering with the participation of Pedro Sigler Vizcaíno, head of the Teaching staff Training Serice of the Valencian Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sport; Paula Marzal, director of the School of Engineering of the Universitat de València; Rafael Monterde, general director of the Innovation Centre Las Naves, Ricardo Domínguez, director of El Caleidoscopio and 40 councillors of education of Valencian towns that took part in the fair.

Drones and projects shown on Friday 19 will represent different local problems or realities to which participants try to provide solutions ─ basic and first-aid help to health services and maritime rescue, help to firefighters, reforestation of woodland, pest control of pine processionary or advertising, touristic support for City Halls.

Issues related to the use of drones in the local field are i.e. maintenance of the Historic Heritage; work as referee in sport events, support in traffic accidents and control for them; supervision of the status of high tenseness cables or drones to transport medication where there is no pharmacy, among others.

The City Halls of l’Alcúdia, Alfafar, Algemesí, Almàssera, Almussafes, Anna, Alzira, Bellreguard, Benetússer, Benigànim, Benifaió, Bétera, Bonrepós i Mirambell, Buñol, Canals, Carcaixent, Càrcer, Catadau, l’Eliana, Enguera, Foios, Guadassuar, Massanassa, Montserrat, Museros, Ontinyent, l’Olleria, Paiporta, Paterna, Picassent, la Pobla de Farnals, la Pobla de Vallbona, Puçol, el Puig de Santa Maria, Rafelbunyol, Riba-roja de Túria, Sagunt, Sedaví, Tavernes Blanques, Utiel, Valencia and Xàtiva take part in the project.

The third edition of the Aerial Fair started in November and more than 3,000 students and 150 professors from Valencia have taken part. The event is promoted by the Universitat de València, the CEFIRE of Torrent, InnDEA Valencia/Las Naves, the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Economics, Insdustry and Competivity) and El Caleidoscopio.