Aerobotic Tech Team Twente (A3T)

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Help us to fly higher!

We are Aerobotic Tech Team Twente (A3T), the youngest student team of the University of Twente. Our team consists of 28 international interdisciplinary students, who are all interested in drones and their applications. This year we are participating in the IMechE UAS Challenge in England. The goal of this yearly challenge is to perform a simulated humanitarian rescue mission using an automated drone. We are designing the drone not only to participate in this challenge but also to be used in a real-life application, where we actively help people.

With this in mind, we got in contact with the foundation Transport4Transport. They provide bike ambulances to small villages in Malawi. This company want us to map areas of Malawi, since a lot of their maps are outdated. The reason for this is that a lot of villages are moving around because of floodings. This way the foundation is able to locate more small villages and can provide more assistance to the local people. Besides mapping, the drone will also be able to deliver medical aid packages to people in need of medicine. This way we can assist the local doctors and deliver medicine faster.

'To optimize our design, we are developing a drone with a carbon fiber frame and tilting rotors. These tilting rotors allow us to take off vertically, but fly horizontally with the efficiency of a plane. To make all this happen we need your support, so we can help people in Malawi and make our drone succeed at what it was designed for!

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€15 Donate Troposphere - Thank you! We will place your name on our website in our hall of fame. 3 donors €25 Donate Stratosphere - Thank you! We will send you a postcard from Malawi and we will place your name on our website in our hall of fame. 5 donors €50 Donate Mesosphere - Thank you! We will write down your name on our drone. No company names are allowed. We will send you a postcard from Malawi and we will place your name on our website in our hall of fame. 6 donors €100 Donate Thermosphere - Thank you! We will send you a 3D printed miniature model of our drone. And we will write down your name on our drone. No company names are allowed. We will send you a postcard from Malawi and we will place your name on our website in our hall of fame. 7 donors €250 Donate Exosphere - Thank you! We will give you a tour through our office, where you will get the chance to fly a drone. We will send you a 3D printed miniature model of our drone. And we will write down your name on our drone. No company names are allowed. We will send you a postcard from Malawi and we will place your name on our website in our hall of fame. €500 Donate Space - Thank you! We will give our DronoBox workshop to you and four other people. During this workshop you will learn the basics of drone flying, build your own drone and fly it after. And we will give you a tour through our office. We will send you a 3D printed miniature model of our drone. And we will write down your name on our drone. No company names are allowed. We will send you a postcard from Malawi and we will place your name on our website in our hall of fame. 1 donor