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UNR Students Win $50K To Improve Flight Control Of Drones

A group of students from the University of Nevada, Reno has been busy at the drawing board designing a product to improve the flight control of commercial drones. This month, their work paid off when those entrepreneurs won the Sontag Entrepreneurship Award.

The business competition is funded with a major gift from alumnus Rick Sontag to the University of Nevada.  Each year a single prize of $50 thousand is awarded. Reno Public Radio's Anh Gray talks with the Director of the Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition Dave Croasdell and  one of the students entrepreneurs ofNevada Dynamics, MacCallister Higgins.

Anh Gray is a former contributing editor at KUNR Public Radio.