Help Nitro Racing Compete in Worlds

We are Nitro Racing, the Canadian Championship winner at the 2024-2025 checkpoint with an impressive time of 1.239 seconds. Our car was designed, built, and assembled by high school students from SATEC @ W.A. Porter Collegiate Institute, a STEM-based school located in Scarborough, Ontario. What began as a passion for racing back in March 2024 stemmed to where we are right now through relentless hard work and dedication that our team members have put in for the past year. Whether it’s staying at school till 6 PM figuring out the designs or working over the weekends to complete the submissions, we’ve faced it all and enjoyed every aspect of it.

We are fortunate to have an amazing team supported by our very own teacher advisor, Ms. Yung, and our amazing principal and vice-principals, Ms. Mayhew, Mr. Cunjak, and Ms. Fairclough, who enabled us to be registered for the Nationals taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 7-9, 2025, and provided us with the resources within the school. Despite what seems to be an ideal situation with an amazing team, supportive staff, and motivating recognitions, we face an issue. We fear we may not be able to compete in the Nationals due to travel costs and building costs related to our upcoming new car. The staggering costs related to traveling to North Carolina, the flight, the hotel, and other expenses jeopardize our ability to show our excellence at the national level. We truly have what it takes to place top three within Nationals, as we had outperformed our competitors in the regional checkpoint despite having the fewest resources at our disposal.

What exactly do we need? A donation to help us alleviate the financial burden, allowing us to compete at Nationals, bring home medals, and showcase our talent to the world. Any amount you contribute will help us get one step closer to what we need to perform at our best in Nationals. Each one of us has many ideas that we would like to put to use for this competition to build a better, faster, and cooler car, inspiring many young and aspiring engineers and showing that anything is possible despite their background.

At the end of the day, we are five high schoolers figuring things out as we go, and your support in our journey to becoming engineers will help us succeed. Your contribution will showcase what talent, coupled with resources, can do for a team of highly motivated individuals who are willing to devote any free time they have to the success of this project. Even if you can’t donate, please share our story with your friends, family, or others. We would love for more people to learn about our journey and be inspired by what we have accomplished. Through this process, we hope to reach someone who can donate and help us compete in Nationals.