Team archive · 2018–2026 A new group takes over each season. This archive records the students, aircraft, and competition result from every year of Drone Team Twente.
2025–2026
The team designed Zephyros, a fixed-wing VTOL tricopter for autonomous humanitarian aid missions.
Rebuild Award
Public roster · 26 members
- Miguel Bofil Grandes
- Walid Slimani
- Furkan Canbolat
- Brandon Dcruz
- Karl Kroski
- Daniel Luis Mederos
- George Birca
- Emiel Keizers
- Ioannis Soulimiotis
- Anis Spiridon
- Daniel Simon
- Xavier Taboada
- Justin Nguyen
- Andre Cuadras Diaz
- Elze Mazuronyte
- Arlen T Croak
- Yousef Hannouneh
- George-Razvan Chirila
- Wisang Umam
- Nagi Anezaki
- Alejandro Solis Mercado
- Alexander Radoslavov Rachev
- Arthur Tyron
- Victor Andrei
- Illia Mirzaali
- Andrii Yevmenchuck
2024–2025
Nightingale completed the team's first fully autonomous competition mission and returned with two awards.
Best Design · Best Media & Engagement
We are still collecting the public roster for this season. The aircraft and competition result are available in the meantime.
2023–2024
The team cut the motor count to four and used tilting front rotors for hover, transition, and forward flight.
Most Promising Team
We are still collecting the public roster for this season. The aircraft and competition result are available in the meantime.
2022–2023
The team took Nekbeth, a fast and largely 3D-printed VTOL aircraft, to the UAS Challenge.
IMechE UAS Challenge
Public roster · 25 members
- Maxim Ciscato
- Tom Kluin
- Antons Averins
- Matthijs Kleine
- Miro Sarkkinen
- Dan Sneider
- Codruța Ionescu
- Elena Gazzano
- Ama Serwah Boakye
- Ahmed Mahran
- Tristan Voors
- Ali Mohamed Ali
- Theo Syriopoulos
- Youssef Kamel
- Rieks Kaiser
- Janis Andersons
- Gerard Bel Català
- Yannis Ntikoudis
- Nikolas Katsantonis
- Linas Lee
- Pedro Henrique Da Silva
- Vanesa Murniece
- Alexandra Chetruș
- Daniela Iamandii
- Ștefan Minu
2021–2022
Thirteen students built Thunderbird and ran a year of engineering work and STEM outreach.
Media & Engagement Award
Public roster · 13 members
- Sietse Oosterhout
- Rens de Boer
- Maxim Ciscato
- Philippe Damoiseaux
- Bas Kluijtmans
- Koen Freriks
- Thomas de Rooij
- Jort Flapper
- Ajitesh Malli
- Shervin Tochani
- Wouter Gerritsen
- Sofia de Gruijter
- Nikolas Katsantonis
2020–2021
The Phoenix team continued work on the hybrid VTOL layout during a largely remote competition year.
Most Promising Team
Public roster · 9 members
- Nils Rutgers
- Ishaan Desai
- Bhanu Chidura
- Dick Dekker
- Ekaterina Antimirova
- Thomas de Rooij
- Bryan Lovato
- Raj Kumar Ashokan
- Rodrigo Carvalho
2019–2020
The second team worked on several aircraft projects and earned Drone Team Twente's first Innovation Award.
Innovation Award
Public roster · 16 members
- Niels Kadijk
- Tjebbe Treub
- Thomas Rebel
- Akarsh Gopal
- Connor Stork
- Jurgen Rietberg
- Nils Rublein
- Gayathri Dhanapal
- Tamerlan Askarzade
- Xian Bodelón Ruibal
- Raj Kumar Ashokan
- Fabian Sisavanh
- Bhanu Teja Chidura
- Silas Nethe
- Kai Ferdelman
- Casper van Uijtert
2018–2019
The founding team built Toothless, an octa-plane VTOL, and entered the UAS Challenge for the first time.
Competition debut
We are still collecting the public roster for this season. The aircraft and competition result are available in the meantime.