The Fire Rescue Team

The Fire Rescue Team

We are the land based fire rescue team at Old Dominion University. What does that mean? Our team is focused on designing a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for the Carova Beach fire department in North Carolina. We are building a quadcopter that will be able to give fire...
And Now, Introducing the *Drum Roll* Landmines Team!

And Now, Introducing the *Drum Roll* Landmines Team!

In August of 2016, twenty-one students from a variety of different disciplines met in a classroom at JMU and were asked one question: how can UAVs be used to tackle complicated humanitarian and environmental issues? The students listened to several project pitches...
Meet the City Walls Team!

Meet the City Walls Team!

  We are the City Walls team from JMU, and our goal is to create a model of a historically and culturally significant wall in Cartagena, Colombia. We plan to stitch together images from video captured by a drone flying above the wall. We will give this model to...
The Sea Rescue Team

The Sea Rescue Team

What are we doing? Our Goal is to create a drone that would help to decrease response times for emergency personnel in remote water front areas such as the Fire Rescue services on Carova Island, NC. In places like this, there are few to no paved roads and it can take...
Meet the Augmented Communications Team!

Meet the Augmented Communications Team!

We’re the Augmented Comms Team from James Madison University and we are looking to develop a way to restore telecommunications for first responders in post-hurricane areas. This blog post is just an insight into our team, our dynamics, and our views on collaboration....
Meet the GMU Honey Bee Team

Meet the GMU Honey Bee Team

One of the most amazing things about the Virginia Drone Project is the combined gusto with which all the teams tackle difficult global issues. We were all presented with problems which, frankly, seem grim. Problems that others may have lost hope for. And yet, every...