Make Academy Legacy

Automotive Design Studio and Digital Content Design Studio make up the Make Academy Legacy program. Students and Mentors meet on Saturday’s 24 times during the school year to participate in hands-on projects that include building electric cars and producing digital video content for MINDDRIVE’s Youtube channel. Students work in small teams with mentors from the community. In addition to designing electric cars, students produced, wrote, and directed their own 10-minute feature film last year.

Make Academy Night

MINDDRIVE offers 3 after-school programs during the weeknight: Drone FPV Racing, Battlebots NRL-Robotics, and Welding Art Studio. Drone FPV racing involves learning how to build and race drones using the Rotor Rush Simulator, micro racing drones (tiny whoops), and 3-5 inch racing quads. Students on our Battlebots team build and fight 15lb Battlebots in the NRL BotsKC competition. And, students in our Welding Art Studio programs learn to weld be creating junk art from scrap metal. Those students will then display their art in an Art Gallery during First Fridays in the Crossroads Art’s District in June.

Make Academy Day

MINDDRIVE began partnering with local schools to provide school sponsored programs in Engineering and Digital Content Design. Students in our Engineering programs will form either and Electrathon racing team or a Drone racing team. Electrathon engineering students will design and build a race car for competition in Electrathon. Students in our Drone Engineering program will build and pilot racing drones. Our Digital Content Design program teaches students how content is created for various media platforms through hands-on projects.

Classic Car Electric Conversions

Electrathon Cars

Prototype Electric Vehicles

FPV Racing Drones

Welded Junk Art

Battlebot Robots

Digital Art

Welded Bicycle Phone Chargers