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May 16, 2010
Evan York To Compete At Daytona International Speedway
As President of Mallard Creek High School's Maverick Motorsports Team, Evan Leads Peers To 2010 Finals
Maverick Motorsports - a Fast Track Racing Challenges (FTRC) team based at Mallard Creek High School's Academy of Engineering in Charlotte, NC - will be competing from May 21st through May 23rd at Daytona International Speedway with FastTrack RC teams from around the nation for the 2010 FastTrack RC National STEM League Finals.
Like all FTRC teams, Maverick Motorsports mirrors professional motorsport teams by competing in a national points race. The team seeks to score points in all possible categories including project planning, marketing and the challenge of achieving maximum performance using Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) with RC cars.
Noted Evan ahead of the trip to Daytona:
I knew I'd be competing at Daytona sometime in my motorsport career. I just didn't think it'd be with a remote control car! Seriously, the entire Maverick Motorsports team has worked very hard. I, along with our faculty advisers - led by Mr. Tyler Brooks - are eager to compete against other strong schools.
The FTRC was initiated in a late 1990's NSF grant in which the investigators were tasked with integrating differentiated and problem / project-based learning into the classroom. It was cutting-edge at the time and the RC car was the stand-out tool because it can reach high achieving and struggling students alike. Today's FTRC is the product of over 10 years of curriculum, network and resource development by STEM and motorsports professionals, teachers, community leaders and of course...enthusiastic students.
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