Project-Based Learning that Doesn't Forget the Learning
The Ten80 Student Racing Challenge: NASCAR STEM initiative™ is a project-based STEM curriculum, support network and optional competition league created by educators, engineers and industry partners over the last decade. The curriculum is aligned with Common Core and Next Generation Science standards. Ten80's team of engineer-educators provides professional development and training for teachers and coaches who support students. (read more...)
Practice League for Future Professionals
The Student Racing Challenge is a local, regional and national academic league in which middle and high school students practice the art of being professionals. Young men and women, supported by a community of mentors and educators, collaborate and compete in ways that mirror business & marketing executives, engineers, technicians, green transportation designers and professional motorsports teams.
Students in classes and clubs use electric radio controlled (RC) cars to create products and work together in ways that parallel the arduous preparation of NASCAR teams in the weeks, months and years leading up to each race. Student teams showcase their work and compete over the internet, locally and nationally in categories including project management, race engineering, aerodynamic design, alternative energy, creative engineering and graphic design. (read more…)
STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
New! Monthly Creative Engineering Challenge
Two favorite categories, the Monthly Challenge and Creative Engineering, have been combined into this new mini-series that's available to everyone thanks to U.S. Army sponsorship. Individuals or teams download a new engineering & design challenge each month and share their products with STEM professionals online to gain feedback and earn points. Exemplary participants can earn sponsorship to enter the full Student Racing Challenge. (Learn more & sign up...)
Engineering is a Performing Art
“Engineering” occurs at the intersection of science, math and technology. Ten80's engineer-educator teams view engineering and “problem solving” as performing arts that are only mastered through practice. Musicians practice before taking the stage. Athletes practice for years before hitting the big leagues. Future STEM professionals should not be expected to perform at a professional level never having actually played the game. We believe it is our job, as successful members of our communities, to provide a development and practice league for future professionals. We’re doing that through the Student Racing Challenge and invite you to get involved too. (read more…)