IGDTUW's Innerve 2026 Reveals Dronathon Details, Showcases Collegiate and High‑School FPV Teams

Pilots flew tight lines at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women when Innerve 2026 staged the Dronathon on March 2, 2026, a fast-paced on-ground FPV drone racing circuit designed to showcase collegiate teams and high-school feeder programs. The event formed part of Innerve, the student festival at IGDTUW, and concentrated competition into an on-ground format intended for close-quarters racing.

Organizers published full event details on the public competition page ahead of the March 2 races, making heats, eligibility, and the Dronathon concept available to teams and spectators. That public posting framed the Dronathon explicitly as a bridge between college-level pilots and high-school feeder squads, and it served as the official record of rules and the event structure for Innerve 2026.

The field at IGDTUW included college-age pilots representing their campuses alongside younger pilots from high-school feeder programs, underlining Innerve 2026’s emphasis on talent development within a competitive setting. The format, described on the competition page as an on-ground FPV circuit, concentrated pilots into a physically contained racing area to highlight pilot skill and aircraft handling rather than long-distance endurance.

Innerve 2026’s Dronathon focused attention on program pathways at IGDTUW: college teams could measure their pilots against incoming talent from feeder programs, and high-school pilots gained exposure to collegiate-level race pacing in a festival environment. The public competition page functioned as the logistical hub for that exposure, listing the full event details that governed March 2’s heats and participant eligibility.

Saturday’s Dronathon at IGDTUW left a clear template for student-run drone racing: a short, spectator-friendly on-ground FPV layout, formalized rules and schedules published on a public competition page, and explicit inclusion of high-school feeder programs alongside collegiate squads. Innerve 2026 turned the technical campus into a proving ground where the next wave of university pilots met their high-school counterparts under the rules and schedule set on the competition page for March 2, 2026. The structure and public detailing suggest the Dronathon will remain a focal point for talent scouting and team-building at IGDTUW going forward.