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Autonomous Robotics Competition Club wins $30K at drone contest
Members of the Autonomous Robotics Competition Club, from left, Vitor Valente, Vidullan Surendran, Rachel Axten and Venkatakrishnan Iyer, display their drone at the Mid-State Regional Airport before competition organizers recorded its flight duration.
Image: Submitted/Autonomous Robotics Competition Club
Autonomous Robotics Competition Club wins $30K at drone contest
Mariah Chuprinski
July 20, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A team of Penn State aerospace engineering graduate students interested in unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, recently won third place at the First Responder UAS Endurance Challenge, taking home $30,000 in prize money.
Hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and sponsored by the United States Department of Commerce, the competition challenged more than 20 university and industry groups to design and build drones and the accompanying flight software. The competition focus