University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illini Drone Racing
What we're all about

Goals and Objectives

Our mision as an organization is to utilize our members educational backgrounds to be able to focus on our core values: Design, Flying, and Competitions.

Design

Many of our members with an engineering background are very interested in designing and builiding our own drones. Our club president has pioneered this and finished our club first drone in Spring 2017.

Flying

The primary focus of this club is to fly drones, and that's what we all love to do.

Compete

Specifically, we're a drone racing club. Our overall goal is to create an intercollegiate drone racing league with an annual national competition to showcase our skills against other universities.

Accomplishments

Brian's Custom Built Drone

Primarily built by Brian with some help from the rest of the club.

About




  • Spring 2016

    Officially a Registered Student Organization (RSO) at the University of Illinois

    Began meetings in a classroom in Davenport Hall. (Replace image)

  • Fall 2017

    Recruitment, Practice, and Drone Design

    We'll be setting up a table on the University of Illinois Quad Day for new member recruitment. We're also building a drone we already have parts for, and are in the process of designing another. We've found an adequate location to begin full time practice for the fly team. (Replace Image)

  • More to come!

Our Executive Board



Brian Ritter

President
Junior - Computer Engineering

Michael Gambino

Vice President
Junior - Materials Science and Engineering

Wyatt Newberry

Secretary-Treasurer and Webmaster
Junior - Computer Science

Parker Budzinski

Marketing Director
Junior - Advertising

John Choi

Flying Team Captain
Junior - Computer Engineering

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