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Commercial drone piloting certification, commonly called FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot’s license, offers a government-sponsored credential with limited entry barriers. Students as young as 14 can take the knowledge test, valid for commercial operations at age 16, without requiring drone equipment or prior flight experience. 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Slater, Ph.D.  \nUniversity of Wyoming  \n[timslaterwyo@gmail.com](timslaterwyo@gmail.com)  \nAbstract  \nCareer and technical educators are often looking for new embedded industry certification opportunities to offer their high school and college students. Of the thousands of opportunities available, schools are often limited by which equipment they have on hand on which students can learn or limited by the specific knowledge and skills of their CTE teachers. Commercial drone piloting certification—often known as FAAPart 107 Remote Pilot’s license—represents a unique opportunity for students to earn a government-sponsored industry certification without many of the barriers other industry certifications require. Students as young as 14-years of age can take the pilot’s knowledge test (although it isn’t valid for commercial operations until the pilot reaches 16-years of age) to earn the certification and no drone equipment nor actual drone flying experience is required. The test itself costs about $150+ and all study materials, including sample tests, are freely available online. For-pay learning modules are also available to students from a variety of sources.  \nIntroduction  \nAs a vital part of the nation’s workforce development pipeline, modern, high-quality career and technical education programs—hereafter referred to as CTE—provide students with technical craft skills that allow them to rapidly enter the nation’s workforce or position them to pursue advanced technical training (Dortch, 2014) . One might mistakenly think that vocational, industrial, CTE-style courses are a passé thing of school days long gone by. However, upon inspection, what we find is that CTE courses are incredibly popular among high school and college students. Nearly 85% of U. S. high school students have taken at least one CTE course during their high school experience (Alvarado, 2023). The most popular of these CTE courses are usually a business-oriented or computer-oriented CTE-credited course.  \nOne of the great promises of today’s CTE is its unique ability to efficiently position graduating students to quickly move into working careers or into advanced technical training. Of the many ways a CTE student might demonstrate to a future employer that he or she is ready to enter the workforce, one of the most popular pathways for documenting student achievement and readiness is for schools to help students acquire a formal credential—an embedded industry certification (Webb, 2021). There are many, many industry certifications available to students:  \nThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Certification Finder web site lists more than 5,000 active certifications available. There might actually be more opportunities for certifications for students as it appears that there is no definitive count of how many industry certifications are available. Prebil and McCarthy (2018) report that national surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Education, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics consistently show that a stable 20 percent of U.S. adults hold at least one industry certification or license, with licenses being the most common.  \nAs one of the newest high tech career opportunities needing a license, operating unmanned ariel vehicles systems (UAVs)—drone technology—is quickly becoming popular with CTE students (Lobo, et al., 2021 ; Slater, 2024) . In the U.S., remote control drone flight is carefully regulated by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and all individuals 16 years or older who wish to use drones for revenue generating, commercial activities are required to have a government-led, industry license. This license is acquired by passing a multiple-choice, written test, described in detail below, and is rapidly gaining popularity. Since its introduction in 2016, more than 300,000 FAAPart 107 licenses have been awarded (Plaza, 2022). 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