MEDIA ALERT - Mazda's Acclaimed Educational Outreach Program Comes to Whitby, Ontario

Students from Durham District School Board High Schools to Experience Automaker's New R.A.C.E. Program

WHITBY, ON, May 29, 2014 /CNW/ -

WHAT:	Through its newly launched "Racing Accelerates Creative Education" (R.A.C.E.) program, Mazda will motivate Durham District School Board high schoolers with real-world, exciting demonstrations of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) applications used throughout Mazda's Motorsports activities and the automobile industry.
	Onsite at its first R.A.C.E. event in Canada will be Mazda's SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel Prototype Racecar, Mazda's professional race car driver Joel Miller in his fire-retardant driving suit, and an aerodynamics demonstration using actual racecar components. Mazda will present the following to more than 600 high school students from around the Durham District School Board who will convene at Sinclair Secondary School:
	A powerful, fully illustrated, interactive presentation that's designed to helps students connect how science, technology, engineering and math are central to Mazda's success on the race track, as well as in the marketplace.
WHEN:	Monday, June 2, 2014 9:15-11:15 a.m. and 1:00-2:30 p.m. *Note to media: There will be two presentations.
WHO:	Kyle Kimball, Manager, Mazda Motorsports; Joel Miller, Mazda Motorsports factory driver and engineer; Martyn Beckett, Director of Education at Durham District School Board; David Klan, Senior Director of Sales, Marketing and Regional Operations at Mazda Canada; and more than 600 Durham District School Board high school students.
WHERE:	Sinclair Secondary School 380 Taunton Road East, Whitby, ON L1R 2K5
WHY:	Mazda is an engineering-based company that hopes to motivate the next generation of STEM superstars. Mazda's prototype racing program would not exist without STEM!
OTHER:	Mazda is racing with domestic, renewable, synthetic clean diesel fuel. The students will learn how their trip to a local fast food restaurant - with a dash of science - helps to power Mazda's 200-mph race cars.

 

Image with caption: "Mazda Motorsports' "Racing Accelerates Creative Education" presentation at Banning High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. (CNW Group/Mazda Canada Inc.)". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20140529_C7482_PHOTO_EN_40881.jpg

SOURCE: Mazda Canada Inc.

Durham District School Board   
Andrea Pidwerbecki, 906.666.6313
[email protected]

Mazda 
Sandra Lemaitre: 647.224.6790
[email protected]
Jay Amestoy: 949.466.0928
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