{"id":7624,"date":"2025-04-01T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2025-04-01T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:50:09","slug":"kirkland-ranch-academy-of-innovation-march-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=7624","title":{"rendered":"Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation March 29 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, March 29th, we held our STEM Electrathon Event at Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation.<\/p>\n

We thank David Kocher, his team and Administration for hosting the event.<\/p>\n

We thank Trish for the homemade cookies and brownies.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> We thank Barry from Channel 13 for coming out and spending time gathering video and interviews for an upcoming clip on our organization.<\/p>\n

The teams arrived and got their cars inspected by Mike Ralph.<\/p>\n

Teams met with race officials for the drivers meeting.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> The course for this race was new to our drivers which gave them a challenge with the gradual elevation changes. The course used more energy, causing batteries to drain before the end of the race.<\/p>\n

We had 8 cars line up for the first race of the day. \"\"<\/a> The green flag dropped and teams found their path on the course. Pro EV 39 had an issue, sending them into the pits for some minor repairs. Mulberry 100 had an issue with their steering, ending their race day after 28 laps.<\/p>\n

When the checkered flag dropped it was:
\nHigh School
\n1st Place Kirkland car 555 with 55 laps
\n2nd Place Lyman car 12 with 53 laps (race time of 1.01.04)
\n3rd Place Plant City car 83 with 53 laps (race time 1.01.28)
\n4th Place Mulberry car 38 with 49 laps
\n5th Place Plant City car 210 with 44 laps
\n6th Place Mulberry car 100 with 28 laps<\/p>\n

Open
\n1st Place Silver Bullet car 94 (Jim) with 53 laps<\/p>\n

Advancd
\n1st Place Pro EV car 39 with 48 laps<\/p>\n

Teams made some adjustments to their cars between races and had lunch.<\/p>\n

We had 7 cars line up for the second race. \"\"<\/a> When the green flag dropped everyone watched closely as teams that had car issues were determined to come back strong to catch up on lost laps.<\/p>\n

When the checkered flag dropped it was:
\nHigh School
\n1st Place Kirkland car 555 with 52 laps
\n2nd Place Plant City car 83 with 47 laps
\n3rd Place Mulberry car 38 with 44 laps
\n4th Place Plant City car 210 with 36 laps
\n5th Place Lyman car 12 with 34 laps<\/p>\n

Open
\n1st Place Silver Bullet car 94 (Jerry) with 45 laps<\/p>\n

Advanced
\n1st Place Pro EV car 39 with 58 laps<\/p>\n

To find the overall winner for the race day, we add the laps from each race together<\/p>\n

High School
\n1st Place Kirkland car 555 with 107 laps\"\"<\/a>2nd Place Plant City car 83 with 100 laps\"\"<\/a>3rd Place Mulberry car 38 with 93 laps\"\"<\/a>4th Place Lyman car 12 with 87 laps\"\"<\/a>5th Place Plant City car 210 with 80 laps\"\"<\/a>6th Place Mulberry car 100 with 28 laps\"\"<\/a>
\nOpen
\n1st Place Silver Bullet car 94 with 98 laps\"\"<\/a>
\nAdvanced
\n1st Place Pro EV car 39 with 106 laps\"\"<\/a>The next STEM Electrathon Event will be held at Eastern Florida State College in conjunction with Energy Whiz at Florida Solar Energy Center in Cocoa Florida on April 26th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, March 29th, we held our STEM Electrathon Event at Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation. We thank David Kocher, his team and Administration for hosting the event. We thank Trish for the homemade cookies and brownies. We thank Barry from Channel 13 for coming out and spending time gathering video and interviews for an … Continue reading Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation March 29 2025<\/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\/7624"}],"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=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}