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STEM League & Curriculum The FastTrack RC National STEM League is the 'little league' through which future engineers, scientists, marketing and creative professionals prepare for their futures.
The FastTrack RC (FTRC) is also a supplemental STEM curriculum that can be
implemented as: FTRC students in grades 6-12 are challenged to optimize the performance of 1:10 scale R/C cars just like professional race teams. Why motorsports? Because it is the only sport won or lost in real time by applying STEM. Drivers only have a chance to win because engineers get it right. Like professionals, competitive FTRC students manage and market their team with the ultimate goal of going further, faster. Teams earn points between Oct and May to reach the National Finals at a NASCAR Sprint Cup track. 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 struggling students and high achievers 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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