{"id":106645,"date":"2025-06-20T06:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/?p=106645"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:23:10","slug":"owego-free-academys-winners-circle-project-team-wins-the-2025-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.owegopennysaver.com\/PS\/2025\/06\/20\/owego-free-academys-winners-circle-project-team-wins-the-2025-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Owego Free Academy’s Winners Circle Project team wins the\u00a02025 competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Wendy Post —<\/span><\/p>\n

Over Memorial Day weekend, Owego took home the Winners Circle Project Championship for the second time during an event held at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut. <\/span><\/p>\n

Over the school year, students from six participating schools built Factory Five cars, assembling everything, testing them, and even marketing the cars. The project runs each school year, starting in September and ending in June.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Owego\u2019s winning project. The cars will be hitting the block at the 2025 Mecum Harrisburg Auction on July 23. Visit mecum.com. Mecum Auctions photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

This year 35 students were involved in the Owego project, where they built a Factory Five Shelby Coupe replica with a Kenne Bell supercharger, 302 small block Ford, and Holley fuel injection. They also participated in simulation racing and marketing efforts throughout the year. The final event was a race at Lime Rock in Connecticut, where driver Chris Dyson raced their car. <\/span><\/p>\n

The competition included several schools, with Owego competing against Waverly, Ketchum, Jay, Dover, and FDR High Schools. <\/span><\/p>\n

OA Schools posted on their website, \u201cIt takes a complete team effort to win the Winners Circle Project Championship, and that’s what happened this year for Owego.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Owego celebrates its win! Photo provided by Pius Kayiira, founder and executive director of the Winners Circle Project.<\/p><\/div>\n

The school continued, \u201cA year-long effort, from the building of a beautiful Type 65 Coupe-R race car from Factory Five Racing to domination in the simulator races, to the marketing and branding campaign to promote Owego Racing and WCP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With six schools participating, including Owego and Waverly in Tioga County, New York, the Winner\u2019s Circle Project offers a hands-on learning experience that blends engineering, marketing, and teamwork.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t build cars, we build good human beings,\u201d said Pius Kayiira, founder and executive director of the Winners Circle Project.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud that Owego Free Academy is our first 2X champion,\u201d said Kayiira.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis project is the next evolution in reality-based education that is designed to inspire the next generation of innovators and creatives.” — Pius Kayiira<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis program brings high school students together to design, build, and race Factory Five cars, pushing their skills to new heights while preparing them for careers in automotive, motorsports, and beyond,\u201d an article in What\u2019s New by Nicole Smith says about Factory Five Racing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Owego celebrates its win! Photo provided by Pius Kayiira, founder and executive director of the Winners Circle Project.<\/p><\/div>\n

In a post by Lime Rock Park on social media, they wrote, \u201cToday we welcomed 180 students from six schools to Lime Rock Park as part of the Winners Circle Project, a non-profit organization that inspires fresh, young, innovative minds through STEAM programs embedded in the exciting world of car racing,\u201d and added, \u201cThroughout the course of one academic year, high school students build a Factory Five vehicle from the ground up. Today, they got to see those race cars on the track.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Owego\u2019s winning project. The cars will be hitting the block at the 2025 Mecum Harrisburg Auction on July 23. Visit mecum.com. Mecum Auctions photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

Watch how it all unfolded during the Championship Event at Lime Rock Park on Friday, May 23, 2025, by visiting <\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qztllBf_b5Q<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And stay tuned, as we will have more on this program.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pius Kayiira, founder and executive director of the Winners Circle Project, addresses the teams and those gathered at Lime Rock Park. Photo provided by Pius Kayiira.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Waverly\u2019s build! Photo provided by Pius Kayiira, founder and executive director of the Winners Circle Project.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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