Factory Trained · a workforce and education initiative by The Drone Factory
Alberta builds things. Factory Trained is the workforce engine for its drone industry: real training, real floors, real jobs, built in the open with the region that hires from it. Follow the line.
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GOGGLES ......... SEATED
VIDEO LINK ...... 5.8 GHZ · OK
OSD ............. CALIBRATED
HORIZON ......... LEVEL
STAGE ........... FOUNDING · EARLY
MISSION ......... TRAIN THE REGION
ARM ▸ FOLLOW THE LINE
STAGE 01
RAW
The region has the people. Training is the gap.
00 / PROGRAMS
PATHWAYS.
Building Alberta's drone industry starts with training the people who will run it.
FOUNDING COHORT IN DESIGN · EARLY INTEREST OPEN
TRACK 01
MAKE.
Manufacturing Technician Pathway
The hands every airframe needs. Precision machining, quality, and tooling, taught on real floors.
CURRICULUM IN ACTIVE DESIGN
TRACK 02
INTEGRATE.
Systems Integration & Controls Pathway
Where machines come alive: flight systems, ground systems, sensing, and control.
CURRICULUM IN ACTIVE DESIGN
TRACK 03
ENGINEER.
Applied Engineering & Research Pathway
Applied projects with real partners, pushing Alberta's drone platforms forward.
CURRICULUM IN ACTIVE DESIGN
00 / REGIONAL SKILLS MAP
THE MAP.
Five role families power a drone economy. Map them first, then teach them.
THE STARTING MAP · BUILT OUT WITH EMPLOYERS AND EDUCATORS
STAGE 02
SKILLED
Skills that transfer to a real production floor.
00 / PARTNERS
THE TABLE.
One table. Education, industry, and workforce, building Alberta's drone economy together.
SEAT 01
POLYTECHNIC
Owns hands-on curriculum and credential design.
SEAT 02
UNIVERSITY
Brings applied research and engineering depth.
SEAT 03
WORKFORCE
Connects recruiting, upskilling, and career pathways.
SEAT 04
EMPLOYERS
Real floors, real standards, real hiring.
STAGE 03
CERTIFIED
Quality discipline, documented. The factory standard.
00 / METHOD
THE LOOP.
Build. Sell. Fund. Train. The factory pays for the classroom, and the classroom staffs the factory.
00 / INDEPENDENCE & SCOPE
HARD LINES.
Education first. Some doors stay closed for good.
RL-01
No regulated products. Not handled, made, tested, stored, sold, or promoted.
RL-02
No weapons training. No hazardous demonstrations.
RL-03
No guaranteed jobs, contracts, clearances, or procurement outcomes.
RL-04
No claimed legal form, accreditation, or governance before it exists.
Factory Trained answers to its mission, not to any one company. Independence is a founding requirement, and the governance we build will guarantee it.
STAGE 04
EMPLOYED
Built beside the manufacturing operation designed to fund it. The loop closes here.
00 / GET INVOLVED
STEP IN.
A founding cohort, a founding table, founding backers. Pick your door.
DOOR 01 / STUDENTS
JOIN.
Raise your hand early. Founding intake will be small, and early names shape what gets built.
JOIN THE LIST →DOOR 02 / INSTITUTIONS
PARTNER.
Start a conversation about curriculum, co-design, or a pilot program partnership.
START A CONVERSATION →DOOR 03 / FUNDERS
BACK.
See the readiness plan before any ask. Evidence first, always.
REQUEST THE PLAN →00 / CONTACT
TALK.
Tell us where you fit in Alberta's drone economy, and we will bring you into the build from day one.
END OF THE LINE · START OF THE CONVERSATION
BONUS STAGE · A FACTORY TRAINED SIMULATION
CRASH COURSE
Learn how drones actually work by flying one — real flight-controller physics, motor mixing, battery sag — then get in a ground rover and haul cargo across the floor. Five flight lessons, three driving runs, one line.
FREE · IN THE BROWSER · GAMEPAD OR KEYBOARD
A TRAINING CONCEPT · NOT A COURSE CATALOGUE