The success of High Flyers in Mexico!
Students from the High Flyers Interfaculty Science Club took second place in the prestigious International Micro Air Vehicle Competition (IMAV) 2025, which took place in Mexico (San Andrés Cholula, Puebla) on the 3rd - 7th November this year.
IMAV is an annual international competition where teams from all over the world design, build and test micro-unmanned aerial vehicles (MAVs). The theme of this year’s edition was Search & Rescue mission – search and rescue in difficult, catastrophic conditions.
During the competition, both the technical and engineering aspects of the developed designs were assessed, as well as the effectiveness of mission implementation during real air demonstrations.
- Winning second place is the result of months of work, testing and commitment of the entire team, which is passionately developing unmanned technologies of the future. We are proud that we could represent Poland and our university on the international arena, showing the high level of Polish engineering thought – explain students from High Flyers Student Science Club. - We would like to thank all team members as well as our scientific supervisors and partners for their invaluable support. It was thanks to you that this success became possible!
SKN High Flyers were represented by students from the Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science and the Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering, composed of: Karolina Kozubik, Alicja Banaszewska, Kacper Stiborski, Jakub Tomczak, Krzysztof Lewandowski, Tomasz Stasiński, Michał Kaczor and Filip Strzępek.
Participation in the competition is one of the elements of the project entitled “Development of unmanned technologies increasing the level of autonomy of transport,” implemented under the supervision of Dr Hab. Eng. Roman Czyba, Prof. SUT, Dr Eng. Piotr Czekalski, Dr Eng. Jarosław Domin. Dr Hab. Eng. Marcin Lemanowicz, Prof. SUT.
Silesian University of Technology received financial funds in the amount of PLN 337 411.00 as part of the non-competitive project entitled “Support students in the field of improving their competences and skills” implemented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Non-competitive project funding from the EU: PLN 22693000.00.
