Drone Competition?
-
- Member
- Posts: 223
- Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2015 6:28 pm
- Division: B
- State: NY
- Has thanked: 96 times
- Been thanked: 11 times
Drone Competition?
Last year I heard that a "drone obstacle course" may be added to the list of Trial Events. Anybody hear about this? (Seriously, how cool would this be??!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgGQCv642o
-
- Member
- Posts: 7
- Joined: Tue Dec 05, 2017 3:00 pm
- Division: C
- State: WA
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
Re: Drone Competition?
That would be so much fun! It would have to be a build event though, I don't just being able to fly tiny drones is science and technology related enough. My school's Skills USA team hosts drone races for my town's local league, and seeing how the pilots took comercial kits and made modifications to them was really interesting. The only problem is that it is expensive as hecc, one drone costs about $100, not including the remote, fpv goggles, batteries, battery chargers, and so on. It would be really exclusive to more funded teams. Lower funded teams might find it difficult to compete in this event.
Central Valley High School, WA
2019 events and place at regionals:
Boomilever 4th
Write it Do it 2nd
Mission Possible 2nd
Thermodynamics 2nd
2019 events and place at regionals:
Boomilever 4th
Write it Do it 2nd
Mission Possible 2nd
Thermodynamics 2nd
-
- Member
- Posts: 524
- Joined: Fri Jan 20, 2017 5:02 pm
- Division: Grad
- State: CA
- Has thanked: 23 times
- Been thanked: 13 times
Re: Drone Competition?
It's also really dangerous, and really difficult event. Although it may be fun for the few who can get it to work, I feel that there would be a lot of no-shows, especially at lower level competitions.
West High '19
UC Berkeley '23
Go Bears!
UC Berkeley '23
Go Bears!
-
- Member
- Posts: 27
- Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:52 am
- Division: C
- State: NY
- Has thanked: 0
- Been thanked: 0
Re: Drone Competition?
It would be really fun but what does it have to do with science.
Events: Microbe Mission, Disease Detectives, Roller Coaster, Dynamic Planet, Road Scholar
-
- Member
- Posts: 732
- Joined: Sun Mar 11, 2018 11:25 am
- Division: Grad
- State: IL
- Pronouns: He/Him/His
- Has thanked: 6 times
- Been thanked: 44 times
Re: Drone Competition?
Aerodynamics, Technology=STEM
A Science Olympian from 2015 - 2019 CLCSO Alumni
Medal Count:30
IL PPP/Mission Assistant State Supervisor.
CLC Div. B Tournament Director.
President of The Builder Cult.
"A true Science Olympian embraces a life without Science Olympiad by becoming a part of Science Olympiad itself"- Me
Medal Count:30
IL PPP/Mission Assistant State Supervisor.
CLC Div. B Tournament Director.
President of The Builder Cult.
"A true Science Olympian embraces a life without Science Olympiad by becoming a part of Science Olympiad itself"- Me
-
- Exalted Member
- Posts: 1071
- Joined: Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:13 pm
- Division: C
- State: NJ
- Pronouns: He/Him/His
- Has thanked: 528 times
- Been thanked: 598 times
Re: Drone Competition?
Doubt it'll happen, I don't think I can even get a drone off the ground.
I can't imagine the amount of extreme safety measures that have to be put on the event too...
I can't imagine the amount of extreme safety measures that have to be put on the event too...
BirdSO Tournament Director, SoCal Planning Team
WW-P HSN '22, Community MS '18
Sciolyperson1's Userpage
WW-P HSN '22, Community MS '18
Sciolyperson1's Userpage