{"id":7322,"date":"2024-09-17T10:53:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T15:13:24","slug":"2024-2025-season-opener-kirkland-ranch-academy-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=7322","title":{"rendered":"2024 2025 Season Opener Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a great turnout for our first STEM Electrathon Race of the 2024-2025 season.<\/p>\n

The rain forecast changed overnight giving us our first challenge to get both races completed.<\/p>\n

We arrived early and met our second challenge; vehicle issues caused our gate opener to arrive late.<\/p>\n

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.
\nThank you everyone that helped.<\/p>\n

We missed all those teams that could not make it due to family, personal or unexpected things that prevented them from attending.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Thank You Trish for the homemade cookies and Debbie for the cherry turnovers.<\/p>\n

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

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

Drivers\/teams met for the drivers meeting and instructions. \"\"<\/a>Our lineup for the first race had nine cars and one starting soon after.\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

When the checkered flag dropped, ending the first race, the standings were:
\nHigh School
\n1st Place Middleton car 80 with 60 laps
\n2nd Place Middleton car 133 with 58 laps
\n3rd Place Plant City car 83 with 54 laps
\n4th Place Plant City car 210 with 47 laps
\n5th Place Lyman car 12 with 46 laps
\n6th Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 37 laps (time 33.31.367)
\n7th Place Mulberry car 38 with 37 laps (time 59.15.833)
\n8th Place Mulberry car 100 with 12 laps<\/p>\n

Open
\n1st Tiger Racing car 4 with 69 laps
\n2nd Place Shark Family car 5 with 64 laps<\/p>\n

Advanced
\n1st Place Middleton car 27 with 18 laps<\/p>\n

We started our second race early in hopes of beating the rain. We had all eleven cars line up. \"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The second race standings were:
\nHigh school
\n1st Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 58 laps
\n2nd Place Plant City car 83 with 57 laps
\n3rd Place Plant City car 210 with 50 laps
\n4th Place Middleton car 80 with 48 laps
\n5th Place Mulberry car 38 with 47 laps
\n6th Place Mulberry car 100 with 34 laps
\n7th Place Middleton car 133 with 29 laps
\n8th Place Lyman car 12 with 17 laps<\/p>\n

Open
\n1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 66 laps
\n2nd Place Shark Family car 5 with 62 laps<\/p>\n

Advanced
\nMiddleton car 27 with 62 laps<\/p>\n

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

Race day overall standings
\nHigh School
\n1st Place Plant City car 83 with 111 laps\"\"<\/a>2nd Place Middleton car 80 with 108 laps\"\"<\/a>3rd Place Plant City car 210 with 97 laps (fastest HS lap for day 46.052)\"\"<\/a>4th Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 95 laps\"\"<\/a>5th Place Middleton car 133 with 87 laps\"\"<\/a>6th Place Mulberry car 38 with 84 laps\"\"<\/a>7th Place Lyman car 12 with 63 laps\"\"<\/a>8th Place Mulberry car 100 with 46 laps\"\"<\/a>Open
\n1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 135 laps (fastest open lap for day 47.856)\"\"<\/a>2nd Place Shark Family car 5 with 126 laps\"\"<\/a>Advanced
\n1st Place Middleton car 27 with 80 laps\"\"<\/a>Our next STEM Electrathon Event will be held on Saturday October 19th at Middleton High School in Tampa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading 2024 2025 Season Opener Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation<\/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":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions\/7357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}