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Help build great people!
As the students build their vehicles, the Power Drive program helps them build themselves into highly capable adults. Many know little or nothing about putting a car together, let alone how to make it keep moving for an hour on just two batteries.
Your donation puts in place the project to which the whole team aspires. Students learn to work together, try something new, fix what gets broken, and get better with every rally.
The students don’t have to be strong athletes, talented musicians, academic geniuses, or even win popularity contests. They just need to show up, pitch in, and apply what they learned in class. There’s a role for each one.
We believe they each need a place to succeed and prove themselves. Win or lose on the track, they each win for themselves.
Your donation creates that place. It lets students figure out the ways classroom knowledge solves real-world problems. That in turn solves the real-world challenge of transforming themselves for anything that comes next.
Thanks to you, EVERON Power Drive is pushing that transformation forward, farther and faster.
Please support Power Drive with a donation amount comfortable for you.
THE VALUE OF STEM
The need for education increases every year. In particular, the need for “STEM” education – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math – grows even faster. This is where Power Drive shines. Certainly, a student learns the basics in the classroom. But what happens then if there is no way to reinforce those lessons?
Power Drive gives students the challenge to apply and reinforce what they learned in the classroom. Some examples:
- Use Science and Physics lessons to make electrical circuits and aerodynamic shapes for their cars.
- Work with Mathematics to calculate the vehicle’s center of gravity to perform better on curves.
- Engineering teaches students to design better vehicle models which are turned into working cars.
- Information Technology tools, computers, and cameras let students produce documents of what they build, how they test, and the lessons learned
The Power Drive program is meeting its objectives to increase STEM knowledge and interest in high schools. Most students come into the program knowing little about the use of tools, principles of design, or even how to drive. As they pursue their classroom studies, they get to apply those lessons to the building of the vehicle in ways such as wiring a working circuit, constructing a sturdy frame, making careful measurements of battery voltage, writing an easy-to-understand journal, making
repairs (often quickly!), and working as part of a team. These skills are vitally necessary in post-secondary education and in the working world. The schools in Power Drive are sending students off to engineering, vocational, or similar post-secondary curriculums and degree programs. Some students go directly into employment such as the skilled trades, automotive maintenance, or the military. For them, electric cars will not be a novelty, but another tool to make life better for themselves and their community.
Power Drive brings it all together into what we call “The Ultimate Lab!”
Please help us bring the Lab to more students, more teams, and more tracks!
Thank you for your help!
