Programs at my college:
We have HS early entry and adjudicated youth engagement programs. There, they are building and flying fpv drones - looks way fun and engaging!
In my CTE digital media photo/video courses students are learning to fly on Tellos with controllers in the gym, before we go outdoors with Mavic 2 pro/zoom and an Inspire 2. A cool thing about Tellos that we may never explore is that they are open to coding hacks/programming, IIRC they use the Python language for programmed flight.
The Mini 2 seems to me a great learning drone and I’ve advised many to buy one. It does (almost) everything a Mavic-series drone does, and does it for less, with great portability for those who want to fly and film in the outdoors. We don’t have any in our program, they don’t seem the right solution for learn-to-fly in a multiuser beginner environment.
You can get 3 Tello packages for the price of one Mini 2, and they are much more durable. I have deliberately run them into walls at full-speed (test for the athletic director), and my assistant and I have both stuck our fingers in the whirling props; I felt we had to know. It does sting, but no broken skin.
On learning outcomes:
Our high school programs’ primary outcomes have to do with inspiration and engagement. Those are super valuable, yet I don’t see those words and concepts showing up in the academic-ese discussions of learning theory.
Our college-level courses *do* have published outcomes. PM me for links if interested. My school also has a GIS technician pathway with a UAS specialization.
See also the programs at Warren (county) Community College; they have a great college-level program.