Advanced Vehicle Technologies

Education/Outreach Program

 
 
Corsa Motorsports has designed and initiated a pilot educational, outreach and awareness program on advanced vehicle technologies being used to provide a meaningful, high energy program for secondary school students focusing on the basics of emerging advanced vehicle technologies. The program called the Racing Into The Future Experience brings to the students a Corsa race transporter paddock setup displaying road-going consumer cars at the forefront of advanced vehicle technologies including the revolutionary GZ09-SH Hybrid powered LMP1 Le Mans race car. The program’s purpose is expose students to alternative power systems centering on the possibilities as exemplified by the Corsa hybrid racecar educating them in the basic principles of advanced electric vehicle design, providing awareness on the variety of career opportunities in the electric vehicle industry, and connect students with next-step educational programs at the technical or University level. The program will also inform students as consumers on the technologies that will power their individual mobility of the future. Education Partner. The Racing Into The Future Experience is working with the National Academy Foundation to deploy the program using NAF’s network of career-themed Academies currently consisting of 540 Academies located in 40 States and the District of Columbia. Each Academy is organized as a small learning communities all located within public schools. NAF students remain together throughout their high school years with a core group of specially trained teachers. NAF's small school vision emphasizes academic excellence while preparing students to pursue professional careers in the corporate sector. This vision has evolved into a premier reform model for public education throughout the country, and has helped inspire the contemporary small school/small learning community movement. To learn more about the National Academy Foundation, click here http://www.naf.org/cps/rde/xchg