The Next Generation Gearing Up
at Virginia Military Institute

Virginia Military Institute (June 6, 2025) -- iVue was invited to present and demo how students can start developing their own drone hardware and software at Virginia Military Institute as part of their GenCyber event.

A student enrolled in the VMI GenCyber event is modifying and fixing Develop Air with Jacob Andrews, iVue Robotics CEO & Founder onlooking and providing support.

Mohit Jain, Lead Software Developer of Worlds iVue, demonstrating the software part of our drones.

The main purpose of iVue’s participation in the GenCyber event was to inspire the youth about the expanding world of drones and innovation of technology within the field. In this session they were learning to solder (creates a permanent bond with metals), and learn techniques such as, tinning wires, and safety measures of soldering.

The drones and equipment brought for the students to use were Develop Air, Develop Air Mini, XP, ESCs (Electronic Speed Controllers), soldering kit, batteries, remote controller, PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) out boards, GPS, and radio kits. The Worlds iVue OS was also demoed during the event to show the iVue RC app, our app used for controlling Develop Air and its Mod Kits, being used to stream the video feed from a camera back to iVue RC via the internet, specifically a 4G LTE connection provided by an AT&T sim card.

Jacob Andrews, iVue Robotics Founder and CEO, informing students all about the importance of drone technology and what we do.

The students gave amazing feedback about the event. There were a lot of beginners and they gave a lot of good comments about the soldering aspect of the lesson in particular. We are glad that the students wanted to learn more about the field as well as what we do, and we were happy to teach it to them.

This event overall fits into iVue’s larger mission to support drone education and innovation because it allows us to display the techniques involving building drones, and what goes into making them. We also wanted to incorporate teaching soft skills as well as hard skills in the lesson to help better prepare them for the future. We will be continuing events like these to promote the welfare of the drone market and help more people gain more and more interest in this field.

Mohit showing the students the Develop Air in action.

Students of the GenCyber event gaining hands-on experience with some of our resources.