We had a great turnout for our first STEM Electrathon Race of the 2024-2025 season.

The rain forecast changed overnight giving us our first challenge to get both races completed.

We arrived early and met our second challenge; vehicle issues caused our gate opener to arrive late.

With the help of all the students and those in attendance we got everything set up quickly. It felt good to have so much support and dedication to our organization to make the racers day a good one.
Thank you everyone that helped.

We missed all those teams that could not make it due to family, personal or unexpected things that prevented them from attending.

We thank Sponsor David Kocher, his students and administration for their support of our organization by having our event at Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation.

Thank You Trish for the homemade cookies and Debbie for the cherry turnovers.

We Thank Matt White with Ampere EV for bringing out their Delorean for teams to check out.
We watched the radar all day, adjusting our race schedule so that we had a great STEM Day of racing.

We welcome new team, The Shark Family car 5 Mulberry had vehicle issues and made it to the race a little late, but they did not give up.

Drivers/teams met for the drivers meeting and instructions. Our lineup for the first race had nine cars and one starting soon after.Drivers did well the first race, Kirkland Ranch 555 had a rear wheel come apart sending them to the pits. Middleton car 27 had a potentiometer issue that caused them to lose race laps. A few other issues with cars showed up but, that happens with cars at the start of every race season.

When the checkered flag dropped, ending the first race, the standings were:
High School
1st Place Middleton car 80 with 60 laps
2nd Place Middleton car 133 with 58 laps
3rd Place Plant City car 83 with 54 laps
4th Place Plant City car 210 with 47 laps
5th Place Lyman car 12 with 46 laps
6th Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 37 laps (time 33.31.367)
7th Place Mulberry car 38 with 37 laps (time 59.15.833)
8th Place Mulberry car 100 with 12 laps

Open
1st Tiger Racing car 4 with 69 laps
2nd Place Shark Family car 5 with 64 laps

Advanced
1st Place Middleton car 27 with 18 laps

We started our second race early in hopes of beating the rain. We had all eleven cars line up. Lyman car 12 had a tire pop sending the car and driver up on a curb. Driver was fine and car had a few things to check before getting back into the race.

Just before the race ended, we started getting a lite sprinkle. We finished the race and teams headed for the pits. A few minutes later the sky opened up and poured rain on the track. Within 15 minutes the rain stopped, and the sun and heat started.

The second race standings were:
High school
1st Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 58 laps
2nd Place Plant City car 83 with 57 laps
3rd Place Plant City car 210 with 50 laps
4th Place Middleton car 80 with 48 laps
5th Place Mulberry car 38 with 47 laps
6th Place Mulberry car 100 with 34 laps
7th Place Middleton car 133 with 29 laps
8th Place Lyman car 12 with 17 laps

Open
1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 66 laps
2nd Place Shark Family car 5 with 62 laps

Advanced
Middleton car 27 with 62 laps

To find the overall winner for the race day, we add the laps from each race together.

Race day overall standings
High School
1st Place Plant City car 83 with 111 laps2nd Place Middleton car 80 with 108 laps3rd Place Plant City car 210 with 97 laps (fastest HS lap for day 46.052)4th Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 95 laps5th Place Middleton car 133 with 87 laps6th Place Mulberry car 38 with 84 laps7th Place Lyman car 12 with 63 laps8th Place Mulberry car 100 with 46 lapsOpen
1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 135 laps (fastest open lap for day 47.856)2nd Place Shark Family car 5 with 126 lapsAdvanced
1st Place Middleton car 27 with 80 lapsOur next STEM Electrathon Event will be held on Saturday October 19th at Middleton High School in Tampa.