16th Annual Aerial Evolution Association of Canada

Student UAS Competition 2025

Support and Sponsorship Opportunities:

Your Strategic Partnership in Shaping the Future of RPAS Leadership:

Sponsorship goes beyond just having your logo featured at an event; it represents a strategic investment in the future trailblazers of the RPAS sector. Your invaluable support empowers us to elevate standards year after year, drawing in top-tier teams with revolutionary ideas. As a sponsor, you actively engage in a dynamic real-world scenario, immersing yourself in the leadership, innovation, and teamwork that define our competitors.

This presents a distinctive opportunity to enhance your competitive edge in talent acquisition. Sponsors attending the competition will receive student competitors’ resumes and have exclusive access to interact with the students throughout the weekend. 

To express your interest in sponsoring the 2025 National AEAC Student UAS Competition please contact the sponsorship committee at sponsorship@aerialevolution.ca

Your participation is not just a contribution; it’s a strategic alliance that propels both your brand and the future leaders of the RPAS sector to new heights.

Competition Objective: 

Each year, participating teams are tasked with creating innovative concepts, designing a done system, and competing in a sub-scale assessment of their prototypes. These prototypes are evaluated based on their ability to perform a specific task based on an annual competition theme which is selected by the competition committee to challenge the teams in a real-world drone application scenario. Beyond Visual Line of Sight capabilities are a key aspect of evaluation in the Phase 2 Flight Assessment. For reference the competition details are contained in the  2025-AEAC-CONOPS-v1.1-9-October-2024.docx.

Competition Eligibility:

To be eligible for the competition, all competitors must be enrolled either part-time or full-time at a Canadian College or University for the Fall 2024 and/or Winter 2025 terms. We highly encourage teams to embrace diversity by comprising students from various academic years, ranging from first year to graduate programs. Our goal is to promote collaboration and diversity of expertise, encouraging a holistic approach to problem-solving.

Moreover, we welcome joint teams consisting of students from multiple institutions, enabling meaningful collaboration between universities and colleges. Embracing diversity in team composition strengthens the fabric of innovation, fostering an environment where different perspectives and backgrounds converge to create groundbreaking solutions.

We invite all participating teams to embrace our DEI focus as they prepare for next year’s competition. Let’s work together to build a more inclusive and equitable industry, ensuring that every voice is heard and celebrated in the journey of aerial evolution.

Registration

To register your team for next year’s competition, please send an email indicating your interest to competition@aerialevolution.ca 

Complete the online registration at https://www.aerialevolution.ca/join/#join including paying the team registration fee of $600+tax. To register, select the “AEAC Student UAS Competition Teams Registration” as the membership type, enter your team’s name under the Name field and the team captain’s name under the Contact Person field. This registration needs to be completed only once per team. Registration is non-refundable. Once fully registered, teams will have access to more information. The registration deadline is 28 November 2024 at 1700 EST.