Elevating K Thru Life.
Drones that turn every learner into a coder, builder, and problem-solver, from kindergarten through a career.
We're a curriculum company that happens to ship hardware, one flight path from block coding to Python to ROS 2 to applied research. More than 100,000 students have climbed it.
One flight path. Kindergarten to research lab.
Three levels, one flight path, every capability stays on as students climb. Aligned to CSTA and NGSS standards. Vertical Innovation sits apart: a toolkit for organizations doing original work.
DroneBlocks is the best all-around high school drone education program.
The Drone Girl, 2025
The numbers behind the flight path.
Build. Fly. Code.
The drones the curriculum runs on, student-built, NDAA-compliant, US-made. One continuous flight path from an indoor trainer to an autonomous research platform.
Same code. Browser to DEXI.
The same PX4 firmware that flies the real drone runs in the browser simulator, code you test is code you fly, no rewrites.
Test it in the DEXI simulator
Students write missions in blocks or Python against a PX4 autopilot running in the sim (takeoff, optical-flow hover, computer-vision waypoints) with zero hardware in the room.
Fly the exact same code on DEXI
That mission moves straight onto a DEXI drone, same firmware, same ROS 2 stack, same code. What you proved in the simulator is what lifts off indoors.
Founded by a teacher and an engineer.
DroneBlocks started in a Texas school library in 2015, and grew into one of three Official PX4 Developer Kits in the world. We're open by default.