Roosevelt CTE students reveal rat rod gokart

Roosevelt Career & Technical Education (CTE) students debuted a rat rod go-kart they constructed on Friday, June 21 at the “50th Annual MSRA Back to the Fifties Weekend” classic and custom car show. The go-kart is part of a build-off against Lakeville High School launched last year by Northern Tool + Equipment.
About 27 Roosevelt students are being mentored by Chopper’s Inc. founder Billy Lane and NASCAR legend Richard Petty. Also known as the “Turbo Teddies,” the students have been working on their go-kart since September.
“This experience, both the mentoring and the hands-on building, has been invaluable for our students,” said Zac Humphrey, an automotive instructor at MPS. “Over the past several months, they've become better at measuring, fabricating, welding and working as a team, and they’ve gained real world experience at the same time. The students call this go-kart their ‘Mona Lisa’ because it’s a work of art and engineering.”
The project was built primarily in the MPS automotive shop at Roosevelt High School. Automotive is just one pathway MPS Career & Technical Education offers to college credit and high-paying, in-demand jobs.