Tag Archives: STEM

Its time to SIGN UP for the 2020 STEAM Gravity Race Car Challenge

Rev Up STEAM Studies with Real-World, Hands-On Fun! Last year thirty schools took the STEAM Gravity Race Car Challenge. A hugely popular and high octane STEAM education collaboration between Kid Scoop News, Sonoma Raceway, and Friedman’s Home Improvement. Each school … Continue reading →

Kid Scoop News in the Maker Lab – STEM Race Car Challenge

Nearly 1,000 students in the San Francisco Bay Area are busy in Maker Labs and classrooms working on finding a way to make the fasted gravity-powered race car for the Sonoma Raceway/Kid Scoop News STEM Race Car Challenge. Thank you … Continue reading →

Twelve North Bay Schools Participate in Sonoma Raceway’s STEM Race Car Challenge

SONOMA, Calif. (April 28, 2016) – More than 1,300 North Bay students will take part in the 3rd annual STEM Race Car Challenge, presented by Friedman’s Home Improvement. This school-based event, which is a partnership with Sonoma Raceway, Kid Scoop … Continue reading →

STEM Race Car Challenge 2015

Trevor Perkins, PJ King, Amritpal Parmar and Charlie Cibrian captured the STEM Race Car Challenge on June 27, the culmination of a three-month program that challenged local students to develop and construct a gravity-powered car, test the effects of different factors and race them down a sloped track. Continue reading →

Ready To Roll

Say you’re a third grader, sitting in class, and the teacher tells you to open your textbook to the chapter on gravity and the laws of motion. He writes “gravity” on the chalkboard in big, bold letters. You open your … Continue reading →

Kids revved up for race car challenge

On May 13, 2014, Napa Junction Elementary School students were shouting for science, thanks to an educational initiative by Sonoma Raceway and its partners. The fourth-graders gathered on the playground cheered on small, gravity-powered cars they had built in class, … Continue reading →