TREASURE COAST \u2014 A surprise delivery is giving Indiantown High School\u2019s Electrathon team a boost as students work to complete their second electric go-kart.<\/p>\n
Florida Power & Light Co. provided the team with additional tools and resources for the project, continuing its support of a program that gives students hands-on experience with science, technology, engineering and math.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo have that support, it helps us grow and expand and reach more students and that is really what is important,\u201d said Michael Cunningham, the tech coordinator and Electrathon instructor at Indiantown High School.<\/p>\n
Indiantown High School has participated in the Electrathon program since the 2023-24 school year, when FPL donated the school\u2019s first build kit. Since then, students have continued developing STEM skills through hands-on competition.<\/p>\n
Through Electrathon, students design and build custom electric go-karts using STEM principles learned in the classroom. The projects also give students experience with teamwork, critical thinking and real-world problem-solving.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe skills students develop through Electrathon help prepare them for success in higher education and future careers,\u201d said Isabella Burckhardt, community relations specialist at FPL. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to continue investing in Indiantown High School and its talented students because we know they\u2019re the innovators, problem-solvers and community leaders of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
For junior Luka Rosario, part of the appeal is getting to take the project from the workshop to the track.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like how hands-on it is,\u201d Rosario said. \u201cI like how we all get to build and have a part in this project. In the end, it pays off because we all get to race it and have fun with it. That\u2019s not something a lot of people get to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TREASURE COAST \u2014 A surprise delivery is giving Indiantown High School\u2019s Electrathon team a boost as students work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[326,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-418965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-martin","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}