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Competitions

Where the code
gets tested.

A season, a scoreboard, and a drone the students built themselves.

Curriculum teaches the skill. A competition is where a student finds out whether it worked, in front of other teams, against the clock. DroneBlocks hardware and curriculum run inside the Advanced Vertical Robotics Competition, and the flight path on this site is what gets a team ready for it.

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A competition drone airborne inside a netted arena, students and officials watching from the side.
Advanced Vertical Robotics

Not a race. A payload
problem with a clock on it.

AVR runs on a printed map inside a netted arena. Teams fly an autonomous course, move cargo, hit marks, and are scored on it. The drone is a DEXI, so the aircraft a team competes with is the same one they built in class and the same one they flew in the simulator.

AVR is run by EduEverything with MultiGP. DroneBlocks supplies the airframe, the curriculum behind it, and the simulator teams practice in. theavr.org is where registration, the game manual and the season calendar live.

A season, end to end

Build it. Code it. Fly it.

A student leaning over a lit competition drone on the bench, working on it with a tool.
Build Teams assemble and repair their own aircraft. Nothing arrives finished.
A student kneeling on the competition map, reaching into a pink-framed drone.
Fly Runs are on the map, on the clock, with a scoreboard.
A team holding their third place banner and plaque beside their drones, under the flags in the hangar.
Result A placing, earned with the machine they built.
Getting ready

The flight path is the training.

Nothing on this page is a separate product. A team gets to the arena by climbing the same ladder every other DroneBlocks student climbs.

Ground SchoolBlock coding and the simulator, before any hardware Hover LabPython and indoor flight on the aircraft they build Flight DeckROS 2 and autonomy, which is what the course actually demands

Teams practice the mission in the browser first. The simulator has an AVR track, so a team can fly the season's course before their drone is even out of the box.

What a competition day looks like

Mostly, it looks like work.

A student in a cap bent over a row of competition drones on the pit bench.
The pit Between runs, teams are repairing, swapping props and re-flashing.
A large competition drone on a bench beside a laptop showing telemetry, students and a mentor working behind it.
Real telemetry The same PX4 stack, the same logs, read on a laptop beside the aircraft.
A green and black competition drone standing on the painted runway of the arena floor, hangar behind.
The arena A printed map, a netted volume, and a queue of teams.

Thinking about a team?

Registration, the game manual and the season calendar are on theavr.org. If you want to talk about what a team needs from us, hardware, curriculum, or simulator access, start here.

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