A GIANT LEAP FORWARD
The experience you gain from working with DBF is unlike anything you will learn in class. We push ourselves harder every day, pull long hours, work together and all support each other.”
Ashley Brown ’24 Aerospace Engineering
A GLOBAL COMPETITION
A total of 107 teams with 1,000 students, some from as far away as Australia and Hong Kong, entered aircraft in the 2024 Design/Build/Fly Competition. Contestants from 12 countries, including 32 U.S. states, participated in the full DBF Competition, including submitting design reports and attending the flyoff.
CONNECTING MINDS
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest aerospace technical society. With nearly 30,000 individual members from 91 countries, as well as 100 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space and defense.
A STELLAR TEAM
Several members of the Daytona Beach team have landed full-time jobs, with Ashley Brown heading to work at Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, Florida, and Zachary Herman, the team’s chief engineer, starting a full-time job at Northrop Grumman. Matthew Marandola from the Prescott team was a manufacturing engineering intern at The Boeing Company in 2023, and his summer 2024 internship with the company was in stability and control.
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