Drone EduTrain

Drone technology for schools and colleges

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Drone EduTrain is a ready-made classroom package that teaches drone assembly, piloting and programming as a supplementary course in schools, lyceums, technical colleges and universities. Institutions get legal, safe small drones, a teaching methodology with textbooks, dedicated teacher training and service. It is a new form of the robotics class: Robotics 2.0.

Traction

$40,000

Investment raised, Sep 2026

Agreements, Sep 2026

$3,299

Price per class package

Invested by Yoshlar Ventures and Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent (15 Sep)
First agreement with Topex school on 10 Sep; first lesson there on 23 Sep
In ongoing use in Turin Polytechnic's Fundamentals of Drone Technology & Piloting course

The problem

Drones over 250 g or with a camera or GPS need a permit, so schools have no legal hardware to teach with. There is no systematic drone curriculum in Uzbek, and teachers lack drone skills.

Drones over 250 g or with a camera or GPS need a permit to import and fly
No systematic drone teaching methodology in Uzbek
Teachers lack drone assembly, programming and piloting skills
Industry is moving to drones, yet trained specialists are scarce

The solution

A 10+1 package: 10 camera-free, GPS-free drones under 250 g that need no permit, manuals for 10 students, Scratch/Python textbooks, teacher training and service. $3,299 per package.

Drones - Under 250 g, no camera or GPS: no permit needed
Methodology - Scratch and Python textbooks in 3 languages
Teacher training - A dedicated course for teachers
Service - Ongoing technical support

The company

What makes it different

Hands-on learning in 3D space

Robotics kits teach movement on the ground; Drone EduTrain teaches flight, aerodynamics and movement in 3D space. It ships as an ecosystem: legal hardware, methodology, teacher training and service in one package.

Who it's for

Schools, lyceums, technical colleges and universities
STEM learning centers

How it makes money

A 10+1 package: 10 drones and manuals for 10 students, plus a program and service for 1 teacher
$3,299 per package, with roughly 45% left after costs
Next: a lower package price by localizing drone production in Uzbekistan

Market

~$20B

Global market

~$42M

Uzbekistan

AI, STEM and Digital Uzbekistan 2030 reforms have put the sector on the state agenda, while agriculture, energy, logistics and geodesy move to drones with almost no trained engineers and operators available.

Competitors

Existing players - Geoinnovatsiya Markazi, Drone Service and others: mostly 2-week piloting courses for adults.
No direct competitor - No nationwide ecosystem combines methodology, legal hardware, teacher training and local service.

Founders

Mirzobek Malikov

Founder at Drone EduTrain

Mirzobek has 7 years in drone and aerospace engineering: a bachelor's at Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent, then a Master's in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in South Korea on a Global Korea Scholarship, researching multi-drone control.

Spent 2024-2026 as Researcher and Overseas Sales Manager at Korean drone maker SEESAW D&U, on projects that won Korean government R&D grants, and brought two large VTOL drones to Uzbekistan for tests, demonstrations and a signed contract.

Selling professional drones in Uzbekistan showed Mirzobek that education, not hardware, opens the market. Returned from Korea in early 2026 to build that education, and now lectures at Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent.

Islomali Vaxobjonov

Co-founder at Drone EduTrain

Background

Master's, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, Korea
Global Korea Scholarship (GKS), fully funded, won twice: 2019 and 2020
Paper on coordinating multiple drones in IEEE Access (2023), presented at ICCAS 2023
Best Graduate Student Award; silver medal at Doha Oasis for Innovation, Qatar
Researcher & Overseas Sales Manager, SEESAW D&U, South Korea (2024-2026)
Lecturer, Turin Polytechnic University in Tashkent (2026-present)

Milestones

10 Sep
First agreement: a partnership with the Topex school

11 Sep
A second agreement, with another customer, a day later
15 Sep
$40,000 investment from Yoshlar Ventures and Turin Polytechnic University
22 Sep
First lesson at the Topex school set for 23 September: the pilot begins