TERRY GUO

FPV PILOT // SYSTEM ARCHITECT // LEADER

I build, fly, and teach FPV drones — and turned a smoked flight controller into a championship team that now trains the pilots behind it.

RESULTS

Teamwork Mission Champion, Aerial Drone Championship (REC Foundation), 2026 — with Team Canada's 2 gold and 2 silver medals.

THE CLUB

Founded and captained an FPV drone club, grew it to a 15-member team, wrote the build and simulator curriculum it runs on, and planned the public programme of the Globe Drone Leadership Alliance — including a New Year parade float and a donation to the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver.

QUICK FACTS

200+ flight hours · 15 members led · 3 years building · Greater Vancouver, BC

CONTACT

Email: terryguo@email.com

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TERRY GUO

FPV PILOT // SYSTEM ARCHITECT // LEADER

“I build, fly, and teach FPV drones — and turned a smoked flight controller into a championship team that now trains the pilots behind it.”

[ TEAMWORK MISSION CHAMPION ] [ 2 GOLD · 2 SILVER — TEAM CANADA ] [ CHIEF PLANNER · GDLA ] [ CAPTAIN · TEAM 1368B ]

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SECTION 01 // PERSONNEL FILE

PROFILE

TERRY GUO // PILOT 01/05

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CALLSIGN TERRY GUO

ROLE FPV Pilot / Builder / Chief Planner, Globe Drone Leadership Alliance

TEAM 1368B — Vancouver Integem 2, High School Group

BASE Greater Vancouver, BC — High School, Class of 2027

SQUAD RECF Aerial Drone Competition

STATUS ACTIVE // SEEKING UNIVERSITY DOCKING

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FLIGHT HOURS

SECTION 02 // ORIGIN STORY

WHY FPV

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SECTION 03 // MISSION ARCHIVE

DRONE CLUB

It started as one kid with a broken quad and a soldering iron. It ended up as the Globe Drone Leadership Alliance — a youth alliance that runs its own workshops, flies a float down a Chinatown parade, and now fields a team that competes internationally. Three jobs got it there.

MISSION-01: FIRST BUILD WORKSHOP

Terry holding a transmitter beside a young student in a yellow Chinese Cultural Centre shirt, in front of an Aerial Drone Competition backdrop

▸ CHALLENGE: New members had zero soldering or electronics experience — and kits were expensive.

▸ ACTION: I wrote an illustrated build guide, sourced budget parts, and ran weekly hands-on stations pairing each beginner with a working quad.

▸ IMPACT: 12 first-time builders each completed a flyable quad in six weeks; club membership tripled that semester.

TEACHINGBUILDING

MISSION-02: THE COMPETITION PIPELINE

A shopping-centre atrium set up as a drone competition course: hoop and arch gates on the tiled floor, team tables behind barriers, and spectators watching from the balconies

▸ CHALLENGE: A club that only ever flies in its own gym never finds out how good it actually is.

▸ ACTION: We turned practice into a pipeline — simulator hours and skill checkpoints, then build nights, then scrimmages against each other — so that when the first Canadian Aerial Drone Competition qualifier opened in Vancouver, we had a team ready to enter it.

▸ IMPACT: The pipeline carried pilots from a school gym to a provincial qualifier and on to the international championship floor.

RACINGORGANIZING

MISSION-03: SIM-TO-SKY CURRICULUM

Children in yellow Chinese Cultural Centre shirts gathered around Terry, who is holding a transmitter, in front of an Aerial Drone Competition backdrop

▸ CHALLENGE: Beginners crashed within seconds on real quads, burning parts and confidence.

▸ ACTION: I built a structured curriculum — simulator hours with skill checkpoints before any real flight, plus a shared crash-log database that turns every wreck into the next pilot's lesson.

▸ IMPACT: First-flight crash rate dropped from ~90% to under 30%; repair costs roughly halved over one year.

ENGINEERINGMENTORSHIP

SECTION 04 // WORLD STAGE

COMPETE

Everything the club built was rehearsal for this. In April 2026 a team from Greater Vancouver flew to San Diego for the REC Foundation's West Aerial Drone Championship — Canada's first entry in the series — and came home with medals. Then they came home and went back to work.

Four students in red team tops standing behind rows of Aerial Drone Championship trophies on a table

THE TABLE AERIAL DRONE CHAMPIONSHIP — REC FOUNDATION · SAN DIEGO, APRIL 2026

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GOLD Team Canada's haul from the championship — in a first year of competing at all.

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SILVER Second-place finishes in the autonomous-flight and teamwork missions.

1368B

TEAM Vancouver Integem 2, the high-school squad — and the number the alliance now flies under.

2025.11.24

Alliance launch. The Globe Drone Leadership Alliance went public, and I spoke as its youth representative — the first time the thing we had been building in a workshop had a name and a room full of people.

VANCOUVER, BC

2025.12.06

Western Canada qualifier. The first Aerial Drone Competition event ever held in Canada — twenty teams in the atrium of City Square, and the moment the club stopped being a club and became a team. Three squads from the programme went up that weekend: 1368A, 1368B and 1368E.

CITY SQUARE, VANCOUVER

2026.02.22

Chinatown Spring Festival parade. The alliance's own float, a drone formation over it, and a walking robot dog — the same machines, in front of the whole city.

VANCOUVER, BC

2026.04.20

West Aerial Drone Championship. Two days at Balboa Park against nearly a hundred teams from four countries, on a season game called Time Warp — and a Teamwork Mission championship banner coming back across the border.

SAN DIEGO, CA

2026.06.10

Recognition dinner. The school district presented the team with honour certificates at UBC, with BC MLA Teresa Wat, school trustee Christopher Richardson, Alfred Chien, coach James Tang and AIGEM's Amanda Liang in the room. The whole squad was called up — both brackets, not just the winners.

UBC, VANCOUVER

THE FLOOR — SAN DIEGO, APRIL 2026 01/05

The season did not end with a trophy on a table. In February the same crew put a float in the city's New Year parade — drones in formation overhead, a Unitree robot dog walking the route underneath, and the mayor stopping at the table. The alliance is housed at the Chinese Cultural Centre, so the parade went past our own front door. Then we handed the Centre a cheque for $8,000, back into the building that hosts us. That is the part I am proudest of.

SECTION 05 // GRAVITY FIELD

LEADERSHIP

MOVE YOUR CURSOR — THE FIELD BENDS AROUND YOU. MAKING SPACE IS ALSO THE JOB.

▸ FOUNDER & CAPTAIN — FPV DRONE CLUB

ACTION: Recruited, trained, and organized a 15-member team across build, race, and media crews; ran weekly sessions and a parts budget.
IMPACT: Three years of continuous operation, and a pipeline that now runs when I am not in the room.

▸ CHIEF PLANNER — GLOBE DRONE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE

ACTION: Planned the alliance's public programme — a New Year parade float with a drone formation and a walking robot dog, community workshops, and the donation back to the cultural centre that hosted us.
IMPACT: Opened the team to the city: a seat at the mayor's table, and a younger intake of pilots who came in through the workshops.

SECTION 06 // UPLINK

CONTACT

THREE CHANNELS OPEN — PICK ONE.

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UPLINK-01: EMAIL

The fastest way to reach me — I read everything and answer within a day.

PDF

UPLINK-02: RÉSUMÉ

One page. Competition results, the roles behind them, and the numbers that go with both.

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UPLINK-03: ELSEWHERE

Flight footage, code, and the professional version of all of this.

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