The second annual regional high school drone competition was held Saturday at Saint Anselm College.
The competition featured students from schools across New England who competed in three challenges designed to test their technical understanding and applicable skills in robotics, aeronautics and coding.
Eight teams attended, including Brockton (Mass.) High School, Bangor (Maine) High School, Belmont (Mass.) High School, Nipmuc Regional High School (Mass.), Spark Academy (N.H.) and Archbishop Carroll High School (D.C).
The competition required students to explain how they constructed their drone (based off a standard S500 V2 Development Kit) and approached the flight requirements necessary to pass a FAA trust exam, before demonstrating their piloting and software skills in both semi-autonomous and fully autonomous coded flight.
While they were not able to fly their drone that day, the students of Spark Academy in Manchester still took part in certain other aspects of the day’s competitions. Their team is called Odin’s Ravens. From left are Tommy Brown, a freshman from Londonderry, Jo Carter, a sophomore from New Boston, Alistair Weddle, a freshman from Manchester, and Charles Cote, a sophomore from Manchester.
Team Creatos Mythos of Brockton High School in Brockton, Mass. operates their drones trying to pick up tennis balls and drop them into baskets. From left are Mark Gordon, a junior, Lizberte Celestin, a junior, Kiera Louissaint, a sophomore, behind her, team mascot Dylan Carvalho-Pereira, a fifth grader, and his brother Zaidyn Carvalho-Pereira, a junior.
The Belmont, Mass., High School team, named Belmont Aerospace Student Society (BASS) competed. This part of the competition involved drones picking up tennis balls and trying to drop them into baskets like a kind of drone basketball. This team added Velcro tape to the bottom of their drone at the last minute, which was great for picking up tennis balls. From left are: Julian Halpern-Smith, a junior, Harry Caldwell, a freshman and Perry Cai, a freshman, watch as their drone picks up more than one ball with their Velcro-taped drone.
At left, Team Creatos Mythos of Brockton (Mass.) High School participated in the second annual regional high school drone competition. Lizberte Celestin, a junior, left, was getting advice on her team’s drone which had not been working from mentors. Around her from left standing and kneeling are: Johnny Worthy, from Arlington, Donato Kava, of Dedham, and David Langus, of Lexington, Mass., all of Lincoln Labs. and Beldon Lin, of Lockheed Martin and Christian North of MIT Beaver Works.
While they were not able to fly their drone that day, the students of Spark Academy in Manchester still took part in certain other aspects of the day’s competitions. Their team is called Odin’s Ravens. From left are Tommy Brown, a freshman from Londonderry, Jo Carter, a sophomore from New Boston, Alistair Weddle, a freshman from Manchester, and Charles Cote, a sophomore from Manchester.
Team Creatos Mythos of Brockton High School in Brockton, Mass. operates their drones trying to pick up tennis balls and drop them into baskets. From left are Mark Gordon, a junior, Lizberte Celestin, a junior, Kiera Louissaint, a sophomore, behind her, team mascot Dylan Carvalho-Pereira, a fifth grader, and his brother Zaidyn Carvalho-Pereira, a junior.
The Belmont, Mass., High School team, named Belmont Aerospace Student Society (BASS) competed. This part of the competition involved drones picking up tennis balls and trying to drop them into baskets like a kind of drone basketball. This team added Velcro tape to the bottom of their drone at the last minute, which was great for picking up tennis balls. From left are: Julian Halpern-Smith, a junior, Harry Caldwell, a freshman and Perry Cai, a freshman, watch as their drone picks up more than one ball with their Velcro-taped drone.
At left, Team Creatos Mythos of Brockton (Mass.) High School participated in the second annual regional high school drone competition. Lizberte Celestin, a junior, left, was getting advice on her team’s drone which had not been working from mentors. Around her from left standing and kneeling are: Johnny Worthy, from Arlington, Donato Kava, of Dedham, and David Langus, of Lexington, Mass., all of Lincoln Labs. and Beldon Lin, of Lockheed Martin and Christian North of MIT Beaver Works.
