Georgia Tech brings drone racing and drone soccer back to campus
Georgia Tech’s June 20 qualifier gives Southeast pilots a campus race with real ladder stakes, plus free public access and a drone soccer side event.
Georgia Tech is bringing RotorJackets racing back to campus with a MultiGP Southeast Regional Qualifier that matters far beyond one Saturday in Atlanta. The meet is set for June 20 at Couch Park Field, with the core competition window running from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Dalney Street Parking Deck listed as the closest parking option.
This is not a throwaway exhibition. MultiGP describes its 2026 Regional Series as a new circuit built to grow drone racing from the ground up, with regional qualifiers feeding the Regional Final and, eventually, MultiGP Champs. On the Southeast series page, the circuit had already started March 1 and showed 5 approved races and 32 pilots, which puts Georgia Tech squarely into a developing competitive ladder rather than a one-off campus demo.
Georgia Tech is packaging the day as a public event that mixes racing with drone soccer and demonstrations, a format that broadens the crowd without changing the central point: this is a qualifier. The campus calendar opens the event to alumni, faculty and staff, postdocs, graduate students, undergraduate students and the public, while Discover Atlanta lists it as free and stretches the public-facing window to 7 p.m. The core race block, though, remains the clearest part of the schedule for pilots trying to plan a race day around practice, rounds and travel.
The RotorJackets Club has built this kind of event into its identity. The club says it maintains a Georgia Tech MultiGP drone racing chapter that hosts local, regional and national races that count toward the school’s national ranking, and its mission is to teach students how to build, design and fly drones while developing a competitive collegiate team. That combination makes the June 20 qualifier part recruiting stop, part competition test and part campus showcase.
Georgia Tech also has the pedigree to make the stop matter. The Georgia Tech Alumni Association described RotorJackets in 2023 as a six-year-old, 30-member club that had won back-to-back Collegiate Drone Racing Championship titles, with individual honors close behind. Add the campus setting, the regional qualifier label and the clean logistics at Couch Park Field, and this becomes the kind of Southeast stop that can shape a pilot’s season as much as a scoreline can.
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