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By Improper Staff | Photo Credit: Nicole Anderson | Aug. 5, 2016
Branick Weix
As a kid, Boston College sophomore Branick Weix would ask for old radios and TVs for his birthday—just so he could take them apart. Once he got to high school, he translated that love for tech into his SkyLink Productions drone business, taking aerial photographs and video for marketing purposes, starting with a nearby golf course. “I spent a lot of my senior year in high school cold-calling potential clients and trying to diversify my work portfolio,” the 19-year-old explains. He soon connected with Minnesota nonprofit Seeds of Change and the Leatherback Trust, which tapped him to bring his drones to Costa Rica to help track female sea turtle nesting without disturbing the natural environment. “In what would take a person three to four hours to accomplish, we finished in less than 11 minutes with the drone,” he recalls. “Some people may look at it as technology encroaching everywhere, but I think that as technology gets cheaper, faster and smaller, we’ll see it being used in new and innovative ways to help preserve and enhance those natural and remote areas.”
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