Tiny aircraft are buzzing their way into Frankfurt as the Franklin Center for Innovation recently launched the Drone Flight School.

It helps young people who want to take to the skies, get basic flight training and work their way up to becoming a certified drone.

Pilots.

Drone pilots are in very high demand and it's growing more as industries adopt drone technologies.

So, yes, there is a shortage.

One of the hurdles is finding pilots that are certified and through the FAA.

One of the rules is if you're doing anything that makes money with a drone, you have to be certified by the Franklin Center for Innovation or CFI is a nonprofit for education that focuses on community activities centered around creativity, exploration and learning.

We have a group of folks that meet in what we're calling a drone club, and they're working in a study group to study for their license.

So that's when it will get really exciting for me when we have some licensed pilots that have come out of our program.

The biggest thing with drones is people don't realize this.

You can actually get your pilot's license at 60.

So we're trying to work with high school students and really anybody that wants to help them get certified.

So we're focused on helping them learn the terminology and everything they need to pass the test.

The course today will be for through eighth graders, and we're working with a program from drone legends called STEM Fundamentals.

So today we will actually be fighting fires, which is very newsworthy right now.

We had to put out fake fires.

It was like fake fires.

So we had like these little fuzzy balls in 3D printed cups that snap onto the tallow and then.

We take the ball and put it on Lydney do a 3D flip to roll the ball.

I learned the different movements of a drone.

If there is your is like turning around.

There's roll which is forward and backward throttle, which is up and down.

These young people are from every angle where whether that be geographically, physically or mentally.

It's a bridge for a lot of young people.

It's an introductory introduction to technology that was unavailable to them previously, which is very exciting for me.

It's a great learning opportunity and especially if they have a drone and they don't know how to fly it.

It's a way to introduce them to STEM kind of accidentally.

They're not even realizing that it's happening.

The more we can help them with the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the more they're able to go into the job market prepared.

There are jobs out there that people don't even think of with drones like repair and the technology advancements and a lot of those other things that are coming with the technology as it grows.

The drone flight school was made possible by a grant from Morehead State University's STEM Excellence School.