Space Foundation giving visitors a chance to play Quidditch with drones

THE GAZETTE | JESSICA SNOWAERT

A new exhibit at the Space Foundation’s Discovery Center in Colorado Springs will give visitors the chance to play with cutting-edge drone technology in a game that mimics the fantasy sport of Quidditch featured in the Harry Potter series.

The exhibit, which opened Tuesday, is the second drone soccer installation in the U.S.

Drone soccer started in South Korea and has since spread to other countries including the U.S., where David Roberts helped co-found U.S. Drone Soccer, a national community of schools and organizations working to bolster engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math through the sport of drone soccer.

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