Build A Dream Program

The Urban Youth Racing School program is open to, inner-city children, ages eight through 18. Our program covers ten weeks of orientation and training, including five weeks in the classroom and five weeks at the track.

Two sessions between June and November accommodate 100 students.  We select students from a pool of applicants who have completed a survey indicating their interest in motorsports. Their applications also include recommendations from school or community officials.Our program provides a balance between classroom learning and hands-on skill-building.

Through motorsports, we have an ideal vehicle for motivating, challenging and engaging students in the learning process. We expose our students to science, math, chemistry, mechanics and business. At the same time, our program instills drive, focus, determination and teamwork, giving students the confidence to become leaders and future mentors.

We provide all students with educational workbooks and journals, as well as all the gear they will need on the track. This includes a regulation racing helmet, gloves, driver or pit crew fire suit, racing shoes, neck brace, arm braces and five-point harness seat belts.

Our programs as well as all equipment, clothing and materials are free to participants. There is a waiting list for UYRS enrollment.

Driver/Team Development Program

The UYRS Team Development Educational Program is designed for students who have already completed the initial Build A Dream Program. This program focuses on education, safety, building self esteem, confidence, team work, physical fitness, public speaking and media training to name a few. This program will be a year round program, it will contain a mixture of the sessions described below along with a five month race season that will also include track testing and practice session dates.

This educational program exposes those UYRS students that are passionate about pursuing a career in motor sports a chance to learn what it is like to be on a race team on and off the track. All the while incorporating the same math and sciences that the students learn in school. One of the highlights of the program will be the engine program where students will learn how to tear down and put together an engine.

UYRS plans to involve the children in different racing series such as Super mini cups, quarter midget and go kart racing so that kids can understand how the theory of racing can be used across the board.

Other educational initiatives will include a one-week internship at a NASCAR Nextel Cup race Teams or other career opportunity and Tour of the Nations Race Capitol Charlotte NC, With visits to NASCAR Race Teams, Penske Auto Research Center, NASCAR Research and Development Center and Speed Channel to name a few.

Engine Program

UYRS with assistance from XBOX purchased an Engine Dyno in July of 2005.  UTI has come on board to help assist with curriculum development, provide engines, technicians and instructors. Jasper Engines will develop an Engine Building Competition for UYRS students and will present the winners with Scholarship Monies at the UYRS Awards Ceremony. They will then assemble A UYRS Engine Building Team to compete in national competitions.

This educational program exposes those UYRS students that are passionate about pursuing a career in motor sports a chance to learn what it is like to be on a race team on and off the track. All the while incorporating the same math and sciences that the students learn in school UYRS students will learn to assemble and disassemble the engines that are used in the minicup cars. They will then use the Engine Dyno to make sure that the engines they have assembled are working properly all the while try to gain more horse power.