Week 6 is the program's transition. The technical training is complete; this week is about turning a working pilot into a working business. Monday and Tuesday cover pricing, contracts, BIR/DTI/barangay registration, and bookkeeping. Wednesday is client communication and report writing using the trainee's own Week 5 NDVI data. Thursday is the final paid survey — a real cooperative client, real money in shared escrow, real deliverable. Friday morning is business plan presentations to a panel including Kennemer Foods and Lumipad leadership. Friday afternoon is graduation: certificates, drone hand-off, photos with families, cohort group dinner. By the end of Friday, every graduate has flown a paid mission and presented a business plan; the drones they built are theirs to keep.
This page is the day-by-day expansion of Week 6 in the curriculum overview. Each day is its own panel below — click a day tab to see the morning and afternoon schedules in detail, the hands-on activities with steps, the materials list, common pitfalls, and the end-of-day check.
Designed for two audiences. Cohort instructors running a Week 6 cohort use this as the lesson plan — block-by-block timing, the rubric for the paid survey + business plan presentation, where trainees in earlier cohorts typically struggle (Tuesday's registration paperwork is more confusing than expected; Friday morning presentation anxiety is common). Trainees use this as preview-and-review — pricing math, contract clauses, client conversation phrasing, and the post-graduation 30/60/90-day checkpoint structure.
Trainee to microenterprise. The technical training is complete. Week 1 was foundations; Weeks 2-3 built the drone; Week 4 lifted it; Week 5 made it fly real surveys. Week 6 is the business. Pricing the work, signing contracts, registering with BIR/DTI/barangay, talking to clients, writing reports, presenting business plans, and Friday: graduation. The skill set is genuinely different — financial concepts, paperwork, public presentation — and the difficulty profile is the most diverse of the program. Trainees with prior business experience often find Week 6 easy; trainees who haven't spoken in front of a panel before find Friday morning the hardest moment of the program. Cohort default historical: ~95% of trainees graduate Week 6 cleanly; ~5% graduate with minor business-plan revision notes; everyone graduates if they passed Week 5. The drone is theirs regardless.
Week 6 is mostly classroom-based with one field day. Different rhythm again from Week 5: back to 09:00–16:00, mostly at the workshop, with the cohort returning to a partner cacao farm Thursday for the final paid survey. Trainees should arrive Monday with their Week 5 NDVI data, valid government IDs (for Tuesday's registration walkthrough), and an honest answer to the question "what kind of business do I want to run with this drone?"
Recommended pre-week reading (mostly business-focused this week)
Trainees who arrive having read these track Week 6 better:
Total: ~85-100 minutes of pre-reading. Less time-critical than Week 5's pre-reading (Week 6 is mostly classroom; instructor explanations cover everything practically) but the graduates testimonials are uniquely useful — they convey realism that classroom material can't.
Schedule: Mon–Fri, 09:00–16:00 with a 1-hour lunch break. 3 contact hours per day; 15 hours total. Mon-Wed at workshop; Thursday is field day at partner cacao farm (transport at 06:00; field 07:00–13:00 like Week 5; back at workshop for 14:00 report processing); Friday is at workshop for presentations and graduation. Friday afternoon graduation runs late — typically 15:00–18:00 with cohort group dinner following; trainees should plan for an extended Friday.
Family invitations for graduation: Friday afternoon graduation is open to trainee families. Cohort default sends invitations Monday morning; cohort default budget covers a small reception. Trainees from distant barangays who couldn't bring family in person have video-call setup available. Most cohort 02 graduates report family attendance as the most meaningful part of graduation.
Each day below is a self-contained lesson plan. Click a day to see the morning and afternoon detailed schedules, the hands-on activities with specific steps, materials, common pitfalls, and the end-of-day check that confirms learning. Days are sequenced — running them out of order will produce gaps.
Day 1 is the first day after Week 5's technical assessment. Pivot from operating the drone to running the business that uses it. Morning: pricing models — cost-plus, hourly, per-hectare — with realistic cohort 02 numbers from graduates who run their own microenterprises. Group exercise: pricing a hypothetical 50-hectare cacao cooperative survey three different ways and discussing trade-offs. Afternoon: service contracts — walking through the cohort default sample contract, understanding payment terms, deliverables, and liability clauses. Translating key clauses to Tagalog and Cebuano because the cooperative manager who signs may read them in any of those languages.
Common Day 1 pitfalls
End-of-day check. Each trainee shows the instructor:
Trainees who want extra time on pricing math can stay 15-30 min at workshop with cohort default instructor support.
Tonight's prep for Tuesday. Optional: read paperwork.html in full (covers BIR/DTI/barangay in detail; tomorrow's walkthrough builds on this). Required: bring valid government ID. Tuesday is paperwork-heavy; trainees who arrive prepared move through faster.
Day 2 covers the paperwork that turns a graduate from "trainee with a drone" to "registered microenterprise eligible to invoice clients." Morning: BIR (Bureau of Internal Revenue), DTI (Department of Trade and Industry), and barangay clearance — the three registrations every Filipino microenterprise needs before its first invoice. Afternoon: bookkeeping basics — tracking income and expenses in the cohort default Bookkeeping Starter Spreadsheet, quarterly tax filing concepts, saving for equipment replacement. Trainees don't actually file paperwork today — each registration happens at a trainee's home barangay or regional office — but they leave with a clear roadmap and personalised forms ready to submit.
Common Day 2 pitfalls
End-of-day check. Each trainee has:
Trainees who couldn't complete the BIR form (missing TIN, document issue) get cohort default referral to Lumipad graduate community for post-graduation support; doesn't block graduation.
Tonight's prep for Wednesday. Optional: re-read business.html Section 4 (client communication scenarios). Required: bring USB with their Week 5 NDVI imagery as backup. Wednesday writes a sample post-survey report using their own Week 5 data.
Day 3 turns the drone work into client deliverables. Morning: client communication — how to scope a job, set expectations, deliver a report, handle the difficult conversations every graduates will face (rain delays, equipment issues, cooperative leadership changes). Afternoon: report-writing workshop — each trainee writes a sample post-survey report using their own Week 5 NDVI data, peer-reviewed by cohort. By end of day, each trainee has produced a client-ready report and learned the conversation patterns that turn one survey into a repeat client.
Common Day 3 pitfalls
End-of-day check. Each trainee shows the instructor:
Trainees who didn't complete report by Wednesday end: cohort default Thursday morning at workshop (before field departure) for finishing; can use trainee's actual Thursday paid-survey output as the basis instead of Week 5 data.
Tonight's prep for Thursday. Optional: re-read missions.html Section 4 (real cooperative survey workflow). Required: rest. Thursday is the field day — early start (06:00 transport like Week 5), real client, cohort default high-stakes flying. Trainees who arrive rested perform better and represent the cohort better to the cooperative.
Day 4 is the program's capstone flight. Each trainee flies a paid survey for a real partner cooperative. Real client. Real money (paid into a cohort-shared escrow that the trainee receives at graduation Friday). Morning at the partner cacao farm: each trainee plans, flies, and uploads their cooperative's paid survey. Afternoon at workshop: process the imagery on the platform, generate the report using yesterday's template, present (sometimes by phone, sometimes in person if a cooperative rep can attend the workshop) to the cooperative manager. Get feedback. Iterate if needed. By end of day, the cohort has delivered real survey work to real clients.
Common Day 4 pitfalls
End-of-day check. Each trainee has:
Trainees who couldn't deliver Thursday end-of-day: cohort default Friday morning deliver before graduation; still within cohort default 7-day delivery commitment from successful flight.
Tonight's prep for Friday. Optional: outline business plan presentation tonight (5-min plan + 5-slide deck max). Required: rest. Friday morning is business plan presentations to a 10-person panel — for some trainees this is the most anxiety-producing moment of the program. Trainees who outline their plan tonight perform measurably better tomorrow morning.
The final day. Morning: business plan presentations to a 10-person panel including Kennemer Foods leadership, Lumipad engineering, cohort 02 graduates, and partner cooperative representatives. Each graduate presents a 5-minute plan; panel asks questions; written feedback follows. Afternoon: graduation ceremony — certificates, drone hand-off (the drone they built is theirs to keep), photos with families, Kennemer and Lumipad leadership address. Cohort group dinner follows. By Friday evening, the trainees are graduates: working pilots, registered (or registering) microenterprises, with their own drones and an graduate community supporting their first 90 days post-graduation.
Common Day 5 pitfalls
End-of-day check. Each graduate has:
Cohort default historical: ~80% Ready cleanly; ~15% Ready with Minor Revisions; ~5% Needs Major Revision. All trainees who completed Week 5 graduate regardless of rating; the rating informs graduate community checkpoint focus, not graduation eligibility.
Post-graduation. Cohort default 30/60/90-day graduate community checkpoints:
Beyond Day 90: graduate community ongoing. program graduates regularly return for guest speaking, sometimes hire from later cohorts, sometimes co-present at agricultural events. The cohort default ends Friday evening. The graduate community is permanent.
Aggregated materials list for an instructor running Week 6 with 6 trainees. Cohort default budget: ~₱5,200 per trainee for Week 6, dominated by graduation costs (certificates, dinner, photographer, cohort default keepsakes), Thursday field day (transport + partner cooperative coordination), and printed materials (contracts in 3 languages, registration walkthroughs, business plan templates). Workshop laptops, drones, and field equipment are reused from prior weeks.
Per-cohort cost: ~₱30,000-37,000 total for 6 trainees (graduation + ceremony + reception ~₱14,000; field Thursday transport + partner coordination ~₱5,000; food across week ~₱13,000; printing + materials ~₱3,000; graduates honoraria ~₱3,000; family support + venue ~₱2,000-3,000). Per-cohort revenue: cohort default Thursday paid surveys generate ~₱15,000-25,000 to cohort-shared escrow (depending on cooperative payment terms); distributed to graduates at ceremony. Net cost to cohort program ~₱15,000-22,000 per cohort.
Reused across cohorts: cohort default Pricing Spreadsheet, Bookkeeping Spreadsheet, Client Report Template, Business Plan Template, sample contracts in 3 languages, BIR/DTI/barangay reference materials, panel scoring rubrics, workshop laptops, photographer relationship, partner cooperative network. The cohort program maintains these between cohorts; per-cohort variable cost is mostly food, printing, escrow disbursement, and panel honoraria.
The Week 6 assessment is graduation. Four specific checks determine the rating; trainees who passed Week 5 graduate regardless of rating, but the rating informs the 30/60/90-day graduate community checkpoint focus. Cohort default historical: ~80% rated "Ready" cleanly; ~15% "Ready with Minor Revisions" (graduate community reinforces specific areas); ~5% "Needs Major Revision" (graduate community checks back monthly for first 6 months). All trainees who completed Week 5 graduate; the drone is theirs regardless.
Graduation rubric — four checks
Each graduate is assessed on the following four demonstrations during Week 6:
Pass: 4/4 = Ready. Conditional pass: 4/4 with one or more minor issues = Ready with Minor Revisions. Major issue on any check (typically business plan revision) = Needs Major Revision (graduate but with intensive 30/60/90-day graduate community support).
Cumulative end-of-program verification
By Friday graduation, each graduate should also have completed across Weeks 1-6:
Graduates leave with: their drone, their certificate, their Week 5+6 paid-survey escrow share, graduate community membership, the 30/60/90-day checkpoint commitment, and lifetime access to the Lumipad platform.
Cohort default historical: ~80% Ready, ~15% Ready with Minor Revisions, ~5% Needs Major Revision. The Needs Major Revision rate is small but real; Lumipad graduate community commits to monthly check-ins for these graduates' first 6 months post-graduation. Historically: ~70% of program graduates are operating drone services profitably 18 months post-graduation; ~20% have shifted to part-time or supplementary; ~10% have stopped (usually for personal reasons unrelated to drone work). The cohort program counts as success if the graduate leaves with technical skill, business framework, equipment, and graduate community — even if the microenterprise itself takes a different shape than initially planned.