about ADC

The Aerial Drone Competition (ADC) is a competition run by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation (REC). Its focus is on the use of the CoDrone EDU which requires high school and middle school students to apply piloting, as well as programming skills for an autonomous drone. The used focus also requires students to involve the engineering design process as they will need to document their works and turn it into an engineering portfolio. The CoDrone EDU focus provides the prerequisite knowledge and operational skills necessary to advance in aerospace & STEM-related careers in the future.

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As for the competition, two teams are randomly selected to be allied with each other, and will need to coordinate on a teamwork mission, in a one minute and thirty second match. With thirty seconds remaining, both drones will need to enter a specialized course that will score them points. For the piloting & autonomous field, teams send one person to test their individual skills as a pilot. The programming areas of the ADC focus on engineering aspects and make them incorporated into the game. In Aeronautics it is our job as a team receive a problem, ideate and research pre-existing solutions, and test various ways to fly the given course in the most efficient way possible.