DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — All through 2025, IMSA highlighted Science, Expertise Engineering, and Math parts to premier the IMSA STEM curriculum throughout each six IMSA race markets, in addition to on-line as a part of its new partnership with Gainbridge® and an expanded partnership with Konica Minolta.
With the primary 12 months of this system within the books, it’s value reflecting on what was achieved for college kids throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The IMSA STEM curriculum was developed along side EVERFI who works with 60,000+ lecturers and their colleges all through the nation, offering interactive, game-based classes, for free of charge to the faculties, lecturers or college students.
In 2025, with curriculum developed along side EVERFI, the IMSA STEM program reached greater than 14,000 college students, greater than 420 colleges and almost 500 lecturers, primarily by way of an internet useful resource. As well as, 180 college students attended the six on-site applications held at IMSA race venues throughout the 2025 season, roughly 30 per program.
College students accomplished a pre-course survey earlier than and post-course survey on the finish of this system. College students elevated their data of engineering profession alternatives throughout two modules – Constructing & Shifting and Engineering Careers Inside Auto Racing – by 65 proportion factors whereas almost half, 49 p.c, expressed at the least a point of curiosity in a profession in auto racing after finishing the 2 modules. Maybe extra importantly, 93 p.c of these college students recognized potential profession paths they didn’t know existed prior.
“Everfi, IMSA and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway put collectively such a cool day for us,” a Purdue Polytech Excessive Faculty instructor relayed after the IMSA STEM curriculum day on the TireRack.com Battle On The Bricks in Indianapolis. “Our college students acquired to study careers in manufacturing, Motorsports and engineering generally, and it has been such a breath contemporary air to see college students see why the lessons that they’re taking in STEM particularly matter in the actual world.”
A pupil who attended the identical day added, “For me, the actions had been nice. Each single one was very informative and attention-grabbing. Like I mentioned, I liked speaking to the race groups in regards to the information assortment. It was loopy to be so near the race vehicles as we had been strolling from location to location.”
The primary of six IMSA STEM curriculum days of 2025 premiered throughout the Roar Earlier than the Rolex 24 check at Daytona Worldwide Speedway. A bunch of 30 college students from two native excessive colleges in Volusia County, Port Orange-based Spruce Creek Excessive Faculty and Atlantic Excessive Faculty, visited the monitor on Friday and went by way of 4 particular stations that ladder as much as the STEM curriculum.
College students ran by way of the next 4 stations at Daytona, with comparable stations occurring all year long:
Tires, Traction and Tread on the Michelin Tire Middle, specializing in Physics and Engineering
Information-Pushed Racing on the IMSA Engineering Middle, specializing in Information Science and Expertise
Engineering Security on the IMSA Tech Inspection Space, specializing in Materials Science
IMSA Expertise Lab – Grand Touring Prototype Hybrid Electrified Race Automobile on the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Sequence.R storage, specializing in Physics and Engineering
“I’m so proud that we may kick this off this 12 months,” IMSA President John Doonan mentioned throughout the Roar. “It’s one thing, that I believe is extremely vital for the whole sport. I’ve a private curiosity and fascination with it, just because I’ve had an expertise and been ready to do that beforehand in IMSA.”
