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You never start over. Hopper is the drone you buy once, and it keeps getting better.

Nearing 3,000 schools. All 50 states. Elementary classrooms to a United States service academy.

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Live from Hopper's downward camera. The main view is the drone's own feed; the inset is the flight in the room. A 10x10 space with 8.5 ft ceilings, tighter than a classroom.

One drone.
What that actually means.

Buy Hopper once and two things happen that do not happen anywhere else in this category. Everything you build on it carries forward, and the drone itself keeps getting better. Here is what that means.

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What one drone actually means
01

The program carries forward

A student flies the same Hopper from an upper-elementary classroom to a United States service academy. All the time a teacher spends learning the drone, the platform, and the curriculum carries forward every year instead of resetting. They get more fluent, not sent back to the start.

02

The drone keeps getting better

New capability lands free on the Hopper a school already owns. It has happened once already and it is about to happen again.

03

Made in San Diego, California

Designed and manufactured in San Diego, California. NDAA Section 889 compliant, so Perkins, Title I, JROTC, and federal workforce contracts are cleared.

04

Funding-aligned

Perkins V eligible. Title IV-A eligible. Grant-research support included. Purchase orders accepted. Explore Grant Research

For The Win Robotics

More than a drone.

Behind Hopper is everything a drone program needs, from one American company. US-built hardware. A full curriculum platform, from first flight to autonomy and real coding. A national competition. And Grace, an AI assistant that knows every lesson. One relationship, one contract, from an upper-elementary classroom to a United States service academy.

Build Fly Code®

Six rungs. One drone.

Build Fly Code is FTW's core curriculum for the Hopper. Everyone starts with Essentials. From there, students move into the track that fits their grade and aptitude, and the Hopper does not change underneath them. This is what buying the drone once actually buys.

The ladder · Everyone starts at 00

00 · REQUIRED

Essentials

Build, Fly, and Code. Build is the mastery core, where students learn every part of the Hopper before they fly it.

01

Hopper Quest

Twelve missions for upper elementary, middle, and after-school. No prerequisites.

02

BFC 2026/27

Middle to high school. Five industries, CTE pathway aligned, competition ready.

03

FTW Part 107

High school. Weather, airspace, and maintenance as subject matter, paired with real flight.

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Post-Secondary

College, university, and service academy programs put Hopper into their own stack, drawing on the high school material with a light touch.

05

Independent Learner

Self-paced mastery, no institution required, on hardware you already own.

Everyone begins with Essentials, every time, including returning students as a refresher. Grace puts it first in every plan she helps build. Six rungs, one purchase. Nothing on that strip asks for different hardware.

What is in it

That is how far the program goes. This is what is inside it.

Five industries. Part 107. A national competition. Every one of them included, and not one of them a separate purchase, a separate platform, or a separate drone.

BFC 2026/27 · Five industries, five real missions

01

Public Safety

Emergency Response

The scenario students fly more than any other on the platform.

02

Agriculture

Precision Agriculture

Survey work and data-driven decisions on a working field.

03

Logistics

Package Delivery

Routing, payload, and precision landing under real constraints.

04

Disaster Response

Search and Rescue

Coverage and search discipline when time is the enemy.

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Infrastructure

Site Inspection

Structured inspection passes and documentation that holds up.

Each one pairs hands-on flight with the industry behind it, delivered as case-study lessons with setup schematics, teacher slide decks, student workbooks, and embedded formative assessments. The mission names are the same ones students see in the curriculum and on the competition field.

Taught as subject matter

FTW Part 107 is its own rung, not an add-on and not a cram course. Three subjects right now: weather, airspace, and maintenance, taught as a body of knowledge through scenario-based learning, alongside the flight time students have already logged.

  • Weather
  • Airspace
  • Maintenance
  • Scenario-based and paired with real flight
  • Lesson plans, slide decks, and workbooks included

Build Fly Code Compete

A national competition

Three challenges, three different skill sets. One is won on the sticks. One is won with a hook attachment. One is won entirely in the code editor. Teams rotate through all three, so a program cannot get by on a single strong pilot.

The challenges sit inside three of the five industries, but the content is additional to the classroom curriculum, not a repeat of it. Ten minutes per match. Every score posted to one national board.

Same Hopper. New stakes.

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Challenge 01 · Manual Flight

Four towers, four fires, two teams sharing one field. Pilots fly through each tower entrance and land clean to extinguish it, and cleared towers lock out.

Emergency Response

Challenge 02 · Hook Attachment

Hopper flies with a hook attached. Pilots locate survivors across the zone and carry each one home, with distance and depth setting the value.

Search and Rescue

Challenge 03 · Autonomous Code

Programmers take over. Teams write autonomous sequences in FTW Code to land on marked delivery zones at varying heights. Won in the editor, not on the sticks.

Package Delivery

Coming next

Build Fly Code Think

The ladder gains a rung. Think brings reasoning and sensing to the Hopper already sitting in your classroom. This is the part that matters most.

Free, on the Hopper you already own. Soon.

See the full pathway See sample lessons

Track record

One drone. Three years.
No restart.

2023

First Hopper ships

The airframe, the board, and the flight stack every release since has been built on.

July 2026

Firmware 2.0

A major flight control upgrade. Shipped free to every Hopper ever sold, including the ones bought in 2023.

Next

Build Fly Code Think

Next major upgrade.

Cost to existing owners

Purchased once

$0

$0

Designed and manufactured in San Diego, California

Ask Grace

Talk to the expert who knows the whole catalog.

Teaching a class, homeschooling, or building a summer camp? Grace knows the FTW curriculum cold, every lesson across Build Fly Code, Hopper Quest, Part 107, and Essentials. Tell her your grade level, your schedule, and what you have, and she will advise you on where to start, what to run, and how to pace it across your weeks. Ask her anything. She is the expert, and she is right here. Free for Build Fly Code platform access holders and anyone considering joining.

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