Phoenix Squadron is a branch of clubs at Concordia Shanghai International School. Under this branch, many smaller clubs dedicated to drones operate, from first-time fliers to seasoned FPV pilots. Phoenix Squadron was founded on December 8th, 2019, by Dr. Tong, Marcus Chu & Shreyas Sharma. 

Founded in 2019 

Imagine. Envision. Innovate. Develop. 

PFL: Phoenix Flight Laboratory 

Phoenix Flight Laboratory ( PFL) is a sub-club of Phoenix Squadron, acting as the ultimate platform to connect like minded students to work together and develop cutting-edge drones. PFL aims at imagining, envisioning, innovating and developing the changes we want to see in the world. PFL works primarily on developing payloads and software on drones. 

Aerospace Club

In the Aerospace Club, students build YD450s. During this club, Students learn more about the hardware of drones - From how propellors work, to soldering, to drone programming. Students would also learn all the components of the drone, and at the end of the course, take home a fully operational and controllable drone! 

Phoenix Hive: Intelligent Swarms

Phoenix Hive is Phoenix Squadron's very own drone swarm kit, comprised of a fleet of over 65 fully operational indoor drones. Developed with support from Damoda - a leader in drone swarm technology - Phoenix Hive brings spectacular drone swarm shows to the Concordia community. 

MiddleSchool FPV Drone Club

The MS FPV club is a CCA run by Phoenix Squadron offered to students in Grade 6&7. In the duration of this club, students learn how to master flying small indoor FPV drones, how to use drones for aerial photography, and also learn the basic principles of drones to master these concepts. 

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Duration: 2020 December - 2021 June

MS Aerospace 

The MS-Aerospace Club is a CCA at Concordia Shanghai, offered to students Grades 7&8. During the 10 sessions of the club, students would learn from Marcus. C & Shreyas. S on how to operate, and program drones, featuring the DJI Tello EDU. Please visit the MS-Aerospace website to find out more! 

Swarm Team

The Swarm Team is a club of like minded students dedicated to promoting & learning the logistics, programming and behind the scenes of a successful drone swarm light show! Towards the end of the course, there would be a fully student led drone show in one of the all school assemblies!

Duration: September 2021-June 2022

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FPV Program

Phoenix Squadron is also operating an FPV Program - where students would learn to operate FPV drones. Recently, the school requested the club to film an FPV One-Take, code named Operation Phoenix Nest. The video is expected to be released by December of 2022. 

Christmas Tree Lighting

Locally, Phoenix Squadron is very well known for its annual Christmas Tree lighting performances - which become more and more intricate and challenging year after year. In 2020, Phoenix Squadron flew Christmas messages over the crowd. In 2021, a drone light show, and an artificial snowdrop. Phoenix Squadron is currently working on the 2022 Christmas tree lighting project. 

Project Prokyon

Project Prokyon was Phoenix Squadron's first take at building an industrial specification drone - designed for enterprise application in the real world. Prokyon's purpose was to serve as an autonomous industrial pipeline inspection drone and was developed in a research internship under Dr. Peter Trong. Project Prokyon was validated at Henkel's Dragon facility in the Shanghai Industrial Zone. 

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