Racing Solar Cars: Fun and Fundamentals on the Last Day of School

Smith County Middle School recently received a $5,000 STEM grant from The Tennessee Valley Authority and Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Corporation.

The school used that money to purchase model solar cars to teach the kids about science, technology, engineering, and math.

As SCMS Principal Kelly Bell explains, children can learn some of life’s most important lessons while playing, and that was the idea when the kids raced their solar cars on the last day of school: