The following is a guest post written by Dr. Tim Lampe, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Adjunct Professor for the Center for Sport Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University.
This spring, the Richmond International Raceway (RIR) hosted the 3rd Annual RIR STEM Education Day event. Using a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race as the backdrop to the event, community partnerships in the Richmond, Virginia area, including RIR, joined together to provide local middle school students with a great race week experience as well as an interactive hands-on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education program.