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AeroTHON 2025

SAE AeroTHON competition for students is organized with a primary focus on developing design, build, and piloting skills of Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) to prepare them industry ready for the emerging market. As part of AeroTHON, students undertake a full design and build cycle of an uncrewed aerial vehicle meeting specific mission requirements, culminating in a final fly-off event.

Complimentary Software

MathWorks provides complimentary software and self-paced online training for this competition. If your team is participating in this competition and needs software, or access to online training fill out the software request form.

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Learn How to Use MATLAB and Simulink for Student Projects

Design algorithms, create simulations, deploy code, and speed up software development for your projects.

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Interactive Online Tutorials

Learn by doing! Our two-hour online courses provide a hands-on learning environment where you will interact with a web-based version of MATLAB and receive instant and contextual feedback.

Learn to Code with MATLAB

Learn to Code is an online, interactive one-hour tutorial that teaches the basics of programming using MATLAB for ages 12+.

Simscape Essentials for Automotive Student Teams

Get started with the fundamentals of vehicle development for student competitions, such as Formula Student, using Simscape.

Making Vehicles and Robots See

Get started with practical approaches to design perception algorithms using these free training materials.

Mobile Robotics Training Videos

Learn to design and test autonomous robot algorithms using MATLAB and Simulink with these free training materials.

Code Generation Video Tutorials

Learn how to convert MATLAB functions and Simulink models to C/C++ code.

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Past Winners

See how students are winning competitions worldwide with MATLAB and Simulink.

Join the User Community on MATLAB Central

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