What thismonthcovers.
STEM Racing is a team-based applied course. Students form small teams and take a car through the full competition cycle: aerodynamic CAD, CFD, manufacture to tolerance, a test programme, a project budget and pitch, and a timed race.
1 month intensive, run as a team module inside the journey
DURATION
Team studios + weekend test-and-race days, ~15 students / 3–4 teams per section
FORMAT
CAD course; electronics course helpful for the optional telemetry
PREREQUISITES
A raced car, an engineering portfolio, a project budget, and a team pitch
DELIVERABLE
The STEM Racing rubric — design, engineering, manufacture, portfolio, presentation, and race time
ASSESSMENT
Materials, machining time, competition registration, and travel support to the regional heat
PROVIDED
By month'send, astudent can…
- CLO1Model a car body to a published technical regulation, and defend each dimension against the rules and the physics.
- CLO2Run and interpret a CFD study to compare drag between design iterations, and pick the faster shape with evidence.
- CLO3Manufacture a part to tolerance using CNC routing / machining and hand finishing, and measure what was actually made.
- CLO4Plan and run a test programme — track timing, and telemetry where fitted — and turn the numbers into design changes.
- CLO5Manage a real project: a Gantt schedule, a budget, defined roles, and a sponsorship approach.
- CLO6Present and defend the project to judges under time pressure, as a team.
Advancingthe wholepathway.
A graduate of E47’s three-month engineering pathway can do all six of the outcomes below. This one-month module carries the highlighted ones.
Where thiscoursesits.
Excel is the value on the line here. E47's position is that a programme in a remote valley should be judged against the same bar as one in a capital city — STEM Racing supplies that bar externally, through international judges and a published rubric.
It also compresses the whole engineering pathway into one deadline-driven month: design, analysis, manufacture, test, and communication at once, as a team. It rehearses everything the mechatronic capstone will demand.
Competing internationally from Hunza is itself the point — it makes the ambition of the programme concrete for the next cohort, and for the region.
Each course is one month. A student’s journey with E47 is 3 months — three one-month modules that hand off to each other and finish on the mechatronic capstone.
Tools thestudentwill use.
Autodesk Fusion (or SolidWorks)
CFD tools (Fusion Simulation / SimScale)
CNC router / machining + finishing tools
Timing gear + optional ESP32 telemetry
Gantt schedule, budget sheet, pitch deck
One student,onemonth.
Planning estimate in USD for Cohort 1 in Hunza, covering this one-month module for a single student on the free track.
| Instructor + team-mentor time (per-student share) | $30 |
| STEM Racing registration & regional-heat costs (per-student share) | $22 |
| Model materials, cartridges & manufacturing iterations | $20 |
| CAD / CFD software (education) | $8 |
| Laptop & tooling depreciation | $10 |
| Space, power, internet | $18 |
| Assessment & regional showcase | $9 |
| Total — per student, 1 month | $117 |
About $117 of a roughly $350 blended three-month cost per student. Travel to the regional heat is funded separately from cohort sponsorship.