{"id":7727,"date":"2025-05-08T22:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2025-05-08T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:12:29","slug":"2024-2025-season-awards-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=7727","title":{"rendered":"2024 2025 Season Awards Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"

We held our 2024-2025 Race Season awards banquet at Mulberry High School on Saturday, May 3rd.<\/p>\n

We thank Todd Thuma and his Administration for allowing us the use of their facilities.<\/p>\n

We thank everyone that assisted in getting the cafeteria ready for the banquet, especially Trish and Torie. The table arrangements, serving approach and awards area were awesome. The last race trophies and end of year awards turned out very nice.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>During the second race, Trish and Torie picked up our meal from the Publix on Shepherd Rd. We had fried chicken, potato wedges, baked beans, Cole slaw, Hawaiian dinner rolls, drinks and a huge cake. \"\"<\/a>We introduced the Electrathon of Tampa Bay\/Florida Executive Board.
\nExecutive Director Charles Harrison
\nPresident currently vacant due to Ryan Norden resigning as his family expands, Finn turns one on June 12th and they have another one on the way. We asked for a volunteer for this position, but no one jumped up to volunteer.
\nVice President\/Co-Founder Jim Truitt
\nTreasurer Fredi Beck
\nExecutive Secretary\/go to person Patricia Ralph (Trish)
\nDirector of Events\/Co-Founder Mike Frederick
\nDirector of Technology Nicodemus Brothers
\nRegistration Director Dawn Swanson
\nCommunity Outreach Director Todd Thuma
\nCommunity Outreach Director David Kocher
\nCommunity Outreach Director Victoria Hobbs (Torie)
\nFounder of our Organization Mr. Kennith Fiallos, it’s great seeing Ken at any of our events.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>We thanked everyone for their support over the years and hope that they continue to support\/attend our events. \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>As Electrathon grows in the State of Florida we talked about different regions and the expansion that Florida Power and Light is doing in their service area.<\/p>\n

If you are a high school in the FPL service area and wish to see if you qualify for their assistance, contact Isabella Burkhardt at: Isabella.Burckhardt@fpl.com<\/p>\n

If you are not in the FPL service area and wish to find out about starting a team (high school, open or advanced) email
\nDavid Kocher at dkocher@pasco.k12.fl.us
\nTodd Thuma at todd.thuma@polk-fl.net
\nTorie Hobbs at victoriahobbs444@gmail.com
\nAnd one of them will get back in touch with you.<\/p>\n

We recognized all the parents and friends that support us by attending the events.<\/p>\n

We recognized our high school seniors that are graduation this year, we wished them success in their future and an opportunity to continue to be a part of our organization by volunteering or starting a team at the school they will be attending.<\/p>\n

High school teams that have participated at 50% or more ETO season events are asked (sponsor) to select a student of the Year for their team. This year we had four high school teams with outstanding students.
\nKirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation
\nSponsor David Kocher\/John Mitchell
\nSantiago Zapata
\nSantiago is our Student of the Year for his all-around support of the team – he is selfless and dedicated to the success of our program. \"\"<\/a>Lyman High School
\nSponsor David Moye
\nAllie Hess
\nLast year our team started out with nothing and got a vehicle going by the end of the year. Unfortunately, the members were all seniors so that left the cupboards bare for this school year when it came to experience and leadership. We started this year with juniors and sophomores; we almost had a totally clean slate. At the beginning of year, I spoke with Allie and explained to her what a Team Principal with a Formula One team did. She accepted the role. Not only does she organize the meetings and practices in general, she also is a primary driver and most importantly keeps me organized and sane.
\nThe team definitely would have been struggling this year without her. Allie has built a solid foundation from which we have worked on and had set us on the path to having a successful year in 2025-2026. Thank you, Allie, for all the work you are doing. \"\"<\/a>Mulberry High School
\nSponsor Todd Thuma
\nAngel Diaz
\nAngel Diaz is one of those students that surprise you as you get to know them. Angel is smart and intelligent, and he demonstrates this in his academic work. However, smart and intelligent students do not necessarily make the best race car drivers. Angel proved me wrong. He was dependable, followed the strategy that we used, and I learned to rely on him as a driver that could keep the car in the race and finish. He is an outstanding student and an excellent Electrathon Race Car Driver, and for that reason, he is MHS’s Electrathon Student of the Year. \"\"<\/a>Plant City High School
\nSponsors David Kocker\/John Mitchell
\nDylan Mitchell
\nDylan is his enthusiasm for Electrathon and the support of his family. Despite being the only remaining student from Plant City still participating he fit into our team well.\"\"<\/a>Mulberry High School Sponsor Todd Thuma recognized his graduating seniors and gave them a token to remember their time at Mulberry High School.
\nParker McCarrick\"\"<\/a>Angel Diaz\"\"<\/a>Aidan Johnson\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>We recognized Dawn Swanson as our Supporter of the Year for always being there to assist on race day. Whether it’s setting up before the race, doing registration, verifying that all the waivers are turned in to cleaning up after the race to name a few. Thank You Dawn\"\"<\/a>We recognized Mike Ralph as our Volunteer of the Year. Mike does anything and everything. He helps Trish with getting the trophies made up, sets up at every race, does inspections, serves as race steward and makes sure that all the equipment is back in the ETO trailer and secured for transporting to name a few. Thank You Mike\"\"<\/a>We recognized Patricia Ralph (Trish) as Mom\/Go to Person. Trish builds the trophies for each race, makes cookies and brownies for everyone, helps with set up, registration, line up safety check, scoring, clean up and plans additional activities such as our end of year awards banquet to name a few. Thank You Trish\"\"<\/a>We recognized Charles Harrison for all he does to make the race season a success. Since 2010 he has dedicated his time to keep the organization going each year with a workday and nine races and a few race assists elsewhere. We gave Charlie a hat with two battery\/solar fans to keep him cool at the races. If you notice, he put it on backwards; fans go in the front to blow onto the face. Thank You Charlie\"\"<\/a>Our special award (bag of lighted balloons goes to Miss Charlotte Hobbs\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Each year we monitor the teams to see who has had a rough season. We gave the I Broke Mine Award to Cliff Rassweiler (Pro EV car 39). Cliff has had motor issues, steering component separation, tire issues, and been involved in a few love taps with curbs and other cars. Hope to see you back on the track for a fun 2025-2026 season. Triash accepted award for Cliff. \"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>For four years, John Mitchell was low key and behind the scenes helping the Plant City and Kirkland Ranch teams. John stayed under our radar; we saw him at every race helping to keep the teams motivated and on the track. On race day, John can be seen in the pits, at the scoring area, or somewhere on the track with his whiteboard communicating with the drivers. If a car breaks down, he is right there to find out what they need to get it back in the race. We believe he is one of those folks that do not need recognition because he is there out of dedication to the students and his son. It is our honor to award John Mitchell the 2024-2025 Sponsor of the Year Award for his dedication and support over the years. We hope to see John continue to be a part of the Electrathon of Tampa Bay\/Florida Family.\"\"<\/a>Our season points are awarded to a team for each race they participate in. Each race day a team could receive up to 40 points for two first place race finishes. Points are reduced the lower the rank in place for a race. Since Electrathon is focused on educating students using science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), we award the top three season points winners in the High School Divison a trophy.
\n1st Place with a total of 283 season points Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation car 555\"\"<\/a>2nd Place with a total of 249 season points Plant City car 83\"\"<\/a>3rd Place with a total of 244 season points Plant City car 210\"\"<\/a>4th Place with 241 season points Mulberry car 38\"\"<\/a>5th Place with a total of 186 season points Lyman car 12\"\"<\/a>6th Place with a total of 173 season points Mulberry car 100\"\"<\/a>In our open and advanced divisions we award only the highest season points winner.
\nOpen Division
\nTiger Racing car 4 with a total of 274 season points\"\"<\/a>Advanced Division
\nPro EV car 39 with a total of 216 season points\/Trish accepted award for Cliff\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>We hope to see everyone at our races in 2025 2026. Check our websites for schedule of events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We held our 2024-2025 Race Season awards banquet at Mulberry High School on Saturday, May 3rd. We thank Todd Thuma and his Administration for allowing us the use of their facilities. We thank everyone that assisted in getting the cafeteria ready for the banquet, especially Trish and Torie. The table arrangements, serving approach and awards … Continue reading 2024 2025 Season Awards Banquet<\/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\/7727"}],"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=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7788,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}