[Python] Drone Project for Engineering 6 month class. $2000 Budget for entire project [closed]

Building a quadcopter for a school project with 8 other students. Most of us don't have any drone experience but we are engineering students so maybe that gives us something. We need to make 2xdrones that are able to have at least 15 minutes of flight time, pushing 30 minutes each would be nice, and are able to know their locations relative to each other. We need them to not be manually controlled more so fed commands via a computer and they make movements based on commands. We only have 8 months to do this so maybe building a quadcopter from scratch is not a good idea. Perhaps buying a frame for a drone and a flight controller is the best bet. That being said, are there any flight controllers that are easily programmable? We are hoping to add sensors that will help with finding the relative location of one drone to the other drone. We also have a $1000 budget, and I believe that the parts can't be from china. Any information would be nice, I don't have a clue of where to start with this.

Right now we have been brainstorming. We have come across these sort of sketchy websites but if there are better options we are open ears. https://www.xheli.com/05h303-6026-qav250-3-combo-kit-carbon.html

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