{"id":6767,"date":"2023-11-07T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2023-11-07T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T17:12:02","slug":"plant-city-high-school-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=6767","title":{"rendered":"Plant City High School"},"content":{"rendered":"

We held our third STEM Electrathon Event at Plant City High School on Saturday, November 4th. We thank Sponsor David Kocher, his team and Plant City HS Administration for their support of our organization.<\/p>\n

Teams arrived, got signed in and their cars inspected. The pits were busy with teams making last minute adjustments.<\/p>\n

We welcome the Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ) Team to our races. Robert and his team have a very interesting car that drew the attention of our teams.\"\"<\/a>
\nWe welcome Middleton High Schools new advanced battery car to the track. William and his team have a sleek looking car.\"\"<\/a>
\nOur Race Steward Mike Frederick met with everyone for the drivers\/teams meeting.\"\"<\/a>
\nWe had eleven cars line up for the first, one hour competition.\"\"<\/a>
\nThe teams\/cars did very well and there were hardly any issues. The new cars from Middleton and Florida State College (FSCJ) were amazing for their first time on the track for competition in our area.<\/p>\n

When the checkered flag dropped the standings were:
\nHigh School
\n1st Place Kirkland car 555 with 87 laps
\n2nd Place Mulberry car 38 with 72 laps
\n3rd Place Mulberry car 100 with 69 laps
\n4th Place Middleton car 80 with 59 laps
\n5th Place Plant City car 83 with 52 laps
\n6th Place Middleton car 133 with 41 laps<\/p>\n

Open
\n1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 86 laps
\n2nd Place Silver Bullet car 94 with 82 laps
\n3rd Place Florida State College at Jacksonville car 904 with 82 laps<\/p>\n

Advanced
\n1st Place Middleton car 27 with 62 laps
\n2nd Place USF car 48 with 38 laps<\/p>\n

Between races the teams made adjustments to their cars, ate lunch and checked out each other’s cars.<\/p>\n

We had eleven cars line up for the second race of the day.\"\"<\/a>
\nMulberry car 38 had their chain issue return after a great first race. Plant City car 83 had some battery issues. Other teams had minor issues.<\/p>\n

We had a scoring system issue that caused us to stop the race for a computer reboot. Our teams handled it well and wound up racing for approximately 66 minutes.<\/p>\n

When the checkered flag dropped it was:
\nHigh School
\n1st Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 91 laps
\n2nd Place Mulberry car 100 with 65 laps (66.49.507)
\n3rd Place Middleton car 80 with 65 laps (66.96.201)
\n4th Place Plant City car 83 with 53 laps
\n5th Place Middleton car 133 with 46 laps
\n6th Place Mulberry car 38 with 39 laps<\/p>\n

Open
\n1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 95 laps
\n2nd Place Florida State College at Jacksonville car 904 with 64 laps
\n3rd Place Silver Bullet car 94 with 60 laps<\/p>\n

Advanced
\n1st Place Middleton car 27 with 45 laps
\n2nd Place USF car 48 with 41 laps<\/p>\n

We add the laps from each race to get our overall race results for the day.<\/p>\n

High School
\n1st Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 178 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n2nd Place Mulberry car 100 with 134 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n3rd Place Middleton car 80 with 124 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n4th Place Mulberry car 38 with 111 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n5th Place Plant City car 83 with 105 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n6th Place Middleton car 133 with 87 laps\"\"<\/a>
\nOpen
\n1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 181 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n2nd Place Florida State College at Jacksonville car 904 with 146 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n3rd Place Silver Bullet car 94 with 142 laps\"\"<\/a>
\nAdvanced
\n1st Place Middleton car 27 with 107 laps\"\"<\/a>
\n2nd Place USF car 48 with 79 laps\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The best lap of the day (33.526) was done by Kirkland Ranch car 555 during the first race.<\/p>\n

Our next STEM Electrathon Event will be held on Saturday December 2nd at Mulberry High School in Polk County Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We held our third STEM Electrathon Event at Plant City High School on Saturday, November 4th. We thank Sponsor David Kocher, his team and Plant City HS Administration for their support of our organization. Teams arrived, got signed in and their cars inspected. The pits were busy with teams making last minute adjustments. We welcome … Continue reading Plant City High School<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6767"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6767\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}