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.