The summer of 2023-2024 found me excited and grateful for my 2nd year Externing with Dr. Jae Ryu and the University of Idaho iDrone program. We mounted a powerful effort to host drone camp programming this Summer but ran into personal medical issues, institutional hurdles and time crunches. Nevertheless, I was able to pay forward a lot of institutional learning and hopefully pave the way for future successes. After spending last Summer orienting myself within the emerging technology of drones and writing curriculum for digital and in person youth development programming, I was ready this year to take on new challenges. This year I developed a drone design challenge, created a readiness to benefit survey and committed to studying for and taking the part 107 FAA exam. Aptly though, the testing center had technology issues during my exam, and I am now in the process of rescheduling:-l . I found great latitude for learning during my time at iDrone and as such I greatly appreciate Dr. Ryu’s flexibility, open mind and wildly intelligent guidance.