High School Activities (Grades 9-12)

F1 in Schools
F1 in Schools, the Formula One Technology Challenge, is a competition, open to all U.S.A.-based students aged 11-18, to design and manufacture CO2-powered model racing cars. Teams consist of three to six students and compete against each other at state, national, and international levels to determine the best-engineered and fastest car in the U.S.A.

Sounds simple? Not when you consider that these 11- to 18-year-old kids use state-of-the-art software programs that enable them to play around with CAD (computer-aided design) and CFD (computational fluid dynamics), just like real F1 designers. Or that they have to manage the whole project from scratch, from drawing up a business plan and raising the sponsorship, to financing it through the design and manufacturing stages, to a presentation in front of a panel of preeminent judges.