"How I Built This" – The Spark Ignites! - Drive to Success Podcast episode 2

<p>"How I Built This" - the Story of Entrepreneurship, Determination &amp; Athena Racing - Drive to Success Podcast</p> <p>What sparked the idea for Athena Racing?!? Learn how this concept came to life. How all of the steps in Loxley’s career led to her creating this nonprofit extracurricular program. As she says in the podcast, “I never thought I would start Athena Racing, I never could have guessed that I would have done anything like this. But now that I have done it, I couldn’t imagine never doing it.”</p> <p>Her Key Take-Aways:</p> <p>Build your career, one step at a time.</p> <p>Always be ready to learn.</p> <p>Develop multiple skillsets.</p> <p>"How I Built This" is a Q&amp;A with Athena Racing's Founder, Loxley Browne and members of the Student Advisory Board, Volunteers &amp; Board of Advisors.</p> <p>Two years ago, a spark ignited that has grown into an award-winning STEM education program. Using a racecar, we teach essential life skills and career development with interactive and creative methods to stimulate curiosity and expose STEM career opportunities.</p> <p>Athena Racing is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that provides free training for young girls in middle school and high school who are interested in discovering career paths in engineering, design, robotics, driving or business in the automotive, motorsport and transportation industries. This is a girls-only program that provides a safe space for young girls to be surrounded by like-minded female students. Additionally, they learn to apply design thinking (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test) to all aspects of life in an environment where they experience how to learn, to fail, and to persevere.</p> <p>Your Support Fuels Athena Racing</p> <p>DRIVE change</p> <p>DRIVE education</p> <p>DRIVE success</p> <p>Visit AthenaRacing.org to discover more!</p> <p>startup, nonprofit, entrepreneurship, athena racing, automotive, motorsports, STEM education, girls in STEM, girls in engineering, girls in robotics, business, marketing, podcast, vlog, students, how to