The College Drone Association (CDA) aims to create an endowment to finance drone education programs in colleges, preparing students for careers in the expanding aerial drone industry, projected to be a $100 billion market. The proposal includes a series of events leading up to college drone games, where teams compete in various challenges and technologies, highlighting efficiency and safety advantages of drones. Successful participants will be offered job opportunities with corporate sponsors seeking qualified drone pilots and engineers.

2. Drone Teams Competition*
June 2017
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* For Example Purposes Only

3. The College Drone Association was formed to create an
annual endowment for college engineering departments.
The CDA Endowment would be used to help finance
on-campus educational programs that teach and train
students for careers in the growing aerial Drone industry.
Demand for qualified FAA-licensed Drone Pilots and
Drone Engineers is expected to grow exponentially
according to Goldman Sachs Research, which forecasts
the drone business to be a $100 billion market
opportunity by 2020).
College Drone Association MISSION:
Training Students for Careers in the Drone Industry

9. Sample Indoor / Outdoor Campus Drone Course
- Obstacle Course Racing - Scavenger Hunt Mission
- Synchronized Team Flying - Aerial Stunts

10. Proposed Schedule of Events
• Late March 2017
– Audition College Drone Team Prospects
• April
– Select College Drone Team Prospects
– Begin Training
– Begin TV Production
• May
– Practice for Spots on Team – Choose Final Drone Team
• June
– Practice for Games
– Produce College Drone Games Event at UCLA

11. College Drone Teams Premise
• Colleges & Universities sign Endowment/Financing Agreements with the College
Drone Association to receive funding for Drone Education Programs sponsored by the
CDA and paid out of merchandising royalties.
• Each school recruits individual students to join the CDA Drone Education Program and
receive sponsor-contributed Drones, on-campus drone practice and training to
compete for a spot on their school’s College Drone Team going to the Drone Games.
• Each College Drone Team will compete to distinguish themselves while performing
specific tasks that new drone technologies are able to accomplish at a lower cost with
higher safety and efficiently than current practices performed by workers at risk and
subject to higher insurance premiums and operating costs.
• The Prize for victory will be Jobs for the Winners – hired by corporate sponsors in
need of qualified and proven Drone engineers and pilots.