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Airborne Delivery Challenge
This challenge is open to Australian high school students. The objective is to create a future generation of aerospace professionals with a focus on UAVs.
An airframe has to be built and the mission is executed by two persons who will not communicate during the mission and will have technological targeting solutions in place:

• UAV Controller in charge of piloting the airframe (or programming the mission in case of the Robotic challenge)
• Mission manager in charge of the mission package drop

Other team members are permitted and many teams have roles for a team manager, media manager and safety manager.
In 2009 and 2010 a Robot Airborne Delivery Challenge was also held in parallel to the main Airborne Delivery Challenge. The Robot competition was dropped in 2011 in favor of bonus points for autonomous payload dropping in the Airborne Delivery Challenge.
It was reported, just prior to the 2011 event, that the UAV Challenge had inspired nineteen year old Chelsea Redman to become an aerospace engineer