Sky Ladder is aerial robotics for schools: three levels that take a pupil from a first indoor flight to a drone they built themselves. It combines hardware with a curriculum, teacher training and a tournament format, and has been used in Polish classrooms since 2018.
To run regular classes, a school needs more than drones: lesson plans, a trained teacher and a reason for pupils to keep going.
Little Bit Academy runs a complete educational programme for primary and secondary schools, using small safe drones to teach programming, physics and maths (STEM) together with teamwork and communication skills. Lesson scenarios were developed with university partners. Each scenario is a self-contained mission tied to one subject and one lesson.
The teacher runs the lesson and explains their own subject. They do not have to solve technical problems - the pupils do that, which is the point. We have been running these classes ourselves since 2018, so the scenarios are written for a real classroom and a real 45 minutes, not for a demo.
Ten complete lesson scenarios of 45 minutes, each a mission on a pupil card, ending with a quiz. Written in Polish today; English localisation is in preparation.
A short course that takes a teacher with no drone experience to running the first lesson alone. Safety, handling, Blockly, classroom management.
Droniada Junior - an international series of tournaments for school teams. A reason for pupils to keep flying after the last lesson of the unit.
The pupil does not learn to fly. They learn to build and program a machine that flies. Three steps, one path. A school takes them one at a time, not all at once.
On saleThe drone already flies. The pupil writes a program for it and sees straight away whether they were right. Blockly, then Python, sensor data in a physics lesson.
Running in 70 Polish schools. Hardware: Robolink CoDrone EDU.
PrototypeA DIY kit. The frame is printed at school on its own 3D printer from an open model; the pupil assembles the rest. Then they fly FPV, well beyond the classroom.
On sale from 2027. This is the layer pilot courses skip.
In designThe ŻBIK fixed-wing aircraft. Longer range, longer endurance, and qualifications that mean something outside school too.
Concept visual. In design.
The drones come with 10 ready-made lesson scenarios. Teacher training can be added to the order.
Seven programmable sensors and a stable radio link. Nothing has to be bought separately to start.
All seven sensors are readable from code, in Blockly or in Python.
The drone talks to its controller over a 2.4 GHz radio link. Up to 10 drones can fly in one classroom without interfering with each other. The connection is stable, and you do not need to pair the drone again after swapping the battery. With several groups in one lesson, that saves time.
The kit includes a Smart Controller with an LCD screen. It shows live sensor data and is itself programmable - a pupil can plot a graph on it or build a custom control panel. It is a physical transmitter with sticks, like the ones used with larger drones, so the habit carries over.
Spare propellers come in the box. Motors, frame and batteries are available as replacement parts, so after a hard landing you replace one part, not the whole drone. Repair is also where Step 2 begins.
Tablets and iPads are not supported by the manufacturer. Blockly runs on a Chromebook; Python does not.
Droniada Junior is an international series of tournaments where children and teenagers learn programming, drone handling and safe flying. It is the part of the programme that pupils talk about at home.
Robolink CoDrone EDU are the official drones of the Droniada Junior tournament.
The tournament format travels: rules, mission design, scoring and the training that gets a school team ready. Ask us about it.
We are looking for partners who already sell to schools and want to offer a complete programme alongside the hardware.
Distributors, resellers and education organisations with an existing route to schools, teacher-training centres or STEM programmes. Tell us which market you work in and what you already sell into it, and we will tell you honestly whether this fits.
Write in English or Polish. We usually answer the same working day.
We can run a short online demo with the drone in the frame and show you a real lesson plan. Write to us and suggest a time.
The full site, including pricing for Polish schools, the blog and funding guides, is at dronywedukacji.pl.
Drones in Education