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1. A short overview description of the team and what you hope to achieve and/or promote. Tell us why you think the Dean would be a beneficial sponsor to your group.

   1. The Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group (WARG) is a team of passionate students developing autonomous aerial vehicles capable of performing various tasks.
      

   2. With WARG our main priority is student learning. Two of our current projects are Project Spike VANGUARD and ZeroPilot. Project Spike VANGUARD involves students in a multitude of tasks such as protoyping, designing both the physical aircraft and the code that runs it. ZeroPilot is our own custom-built autopilot system. This great experience for students gives them hands-on experience on how to set up a first-person autopilot system, which isn't something that every student gets to say about their university experience. This year has shown that we must be adaptable and resilient, as there was a lot to be learned as we dealt with the challenges of collaborating remotely. Our ZeroPilot system is reinforced by a Computer Vision system that provides perception to our drone, allowing us to detect objects and read QR codes to provide autonomous flight. Our computer vision system gives our team members experience with industry-standard computer vision software.
      

      With the university opening back up, we are looking to take advantage of this opportunity to work with our team in a greater capability -per than we have been able to over this past year. During this season we will need money to fund our various activities. We are currently in the process of creating our 2022 Aircraft, as WARG will be competing in the annual Unmanned Systems Canada Student Competition this May. Currently we We intend to bring 10-15 members from our various sub-teams to the competition , and hope that the Dean would be able to sponsor - we are asking for sponsorship in order to cover the costs incurred from our team competing on a national level. This term, we are currently prototyping and staging test runs in preparation for the competition. Whether we fail or succeed in the competition, we want to ensure that our students have memorable experiences that they can be proud of, and be able to take gain lifelong skills from this club that can be applicable to the future.

2. A profile of the team membership/makeup - i.e. number of participating students by their department.

   1. TRON - 10
      SE - 3
      ECE - 10
      CS - 2
      SYDE - 2
      MECH - 2
      CFM - 1
      BME - 1

3. A budget, all sponsorship sources and amounts secured elsewhere (e.g. department). What would be your fair estimate of the Dean's contribution?

   1. Other sponsors:
      Asana - 1000
      VectorNav - 5000
      Keysight - 10000
      Cisco - 1000
      Solidworks - 5000
      EngSoc - 2000
      WEEF - 10000

      Budget:
      Competition Expenses - 7500
      Motor - 1800
      Weight Scale - 250
      Flight Controller PCB - 450
      Power Distribution PCB - 240
      Battery Management System (BMS) PCB - 300
      Custom Motor Controller PCB - 225
      Gimbal PCB - 120
      Firmware Training PCB - 100
      80A Electronic Speed Controllers (Turnigy) - 320
      5000mAh 6S 40C LiPo Batteries - 250
      Dev boards, programming materials, sensors and other peripherals - 1000
      NVidia Jetson - 322
      ASUS AC56 Wifi Adaptors for RPi - 360
      Raspberry Pi4B Ground SBC - 80
      Raspberry Pi 0 Air SBC - 20
      Raspberry Pi Camera V2 - 200
      drone main frame material - 1500
      grabber frame material - 300
      Camera - 100
      Servo - 50

      We're hoping that the Dean will contribute the portion of our budget relating to competition costs, and we're asking for 7500 to cover the costs of competing in the Unmanned Systems Canada Student Competition this May.

      Cost Breakdown of Competition Expenses:
      Competition Fee - 500
      Cost per Team Member - 285 (x14, so 3990)
      Meals - $30 per day per team member (roughly 2200 for the entire team for the duration of the ompetition)
      Misc expenses (licensing due to TC for competition, gas, unforseen expenses) - 810

      Total : 7500

4. If your request is granted, arrangements will be made immediately for your group to receive the Dean's
   contribution. The contribution can be handled in one of two ways i) transferred into a departmental account [please include the account number and/or the department contact person], or ii) a cheque can be made payable to the team, and must include the full on-campus mailing address. Please indicate your preference.

   1. pending

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