Outreach

Our home school, Wheeler High School, annually hosts an event for elementary and middle school students from our local feeder schools to inform them on the marvels of STEM through various projects, demonstrations, and math/science driven games. At STEAM Symposium in April 2019, our team did many demonstrations of our car to hundreds of students. Before each launch of our car, we gave a short presentation about our CO2 driven car, wind resistance, and the F1 in Schools competition with visuals using CFD and other advanced software.

Reached around 400 students

At our first outreach event at another school, our team spent weeks designing and tweaking activities for the students to stimulate their minds and keep them engaged. Our 6 team members facilitated and organized a spaghetti marshmallow tower activity, a shark tank marketing game, a logo making competition, and a paper airplane competition. These events took place in the cafeteria and were a huge hit among the students; before our activities, we gave a brief presentation about F1 in schools and taught the students about STEAM throughout our event.

Reached around 50 students

The Wheeler Magnet Fall Open house is designed to give prospective students for the magnet program a gist of what the magnet program and its students are like inside and outside the classroom. Working with the 2019 F1 in Schools National Champions, Celeritas Racing, our team setup our track and gave a demonstration of the car, along with a brief presentation about some of the higher level physics and design principles F1 in Schools requires. Our demonstration was setup near the engineering classrooms and was viewed by many parents, prospective students, and even classmates who were perplexed by how a CO2 canister made a car move that fast.

Reached around 150 students

Frontier Racing hosted a fundraiser at Chipotle. We invited friends and family to come out and grab a bite to eat while supporting our F1 in Schools team. To do this, they had to tell the cashier that they were going to support Frontier Racing; we handed out wristbands to those who came to support us and even informed some of our friends about what we stood for as an F1 team. Even groups of high school students learned some new things about marketing, branding, and how to organize a fundraiser as our marketing team gave short informative speeches to our friends and family that joined us

Reached around 50 students

Frontier Racing helped setup and participated in Sedalia Park, one of Wheeler High School's feeder elementary schools, STEM Night where students and teachers from the school set up different activities that were related to Math and Science. Each student had a passport where they got to go to each station around the gymnasium and cafeteria and get their passport marked off at each station. For this event, we brought our very own wind tunnel which is made out of cardboard and powered by dry ice. This was used to demonstrate fluid dynamics and wind resistance; professional wind tunnels are incredibly difficult to move around and are very expensive. This homemade wind tunnel helps us explain some key physics principles to the students and gives them a live demonstration; the students are able to make different cars out by attaching different wings with velcro and try find the car which will have the least wind resistance, or the smoothest wind streams over the car.

Reached around 200 students

Our outreach event at Sedalia Park Elementary School, a feeder school into Wheeler High School, consisted of 3 activities. We hosted another shark tank game where children came up with a product, drew a picture of it, and then made a short pitch to us as we decided as a team whose idea was our favorite. In additon, we did a logo making competition for their product as we then made a short presentation about the origins of our name, logo, and slogans. Some of these products ranged from lipstick which stayed on forever, rocket boots, and even some new sport ideas. While this was going on, we had a paper airplane contest going on in the gym where each student made a paper airplane with help from our team and decorated it as they then threw it to see which went the farthest distance.

Reached around 50 students