The 2025 Solar Car Challenge will host 27 high school-age teams from across the country, including 13 from Texas. The Challenge sees about 300 teenagers, who have built their solar cars from the ground up over the past year or longer,  race around Texas Motor Speedway for four days, with the winning team in each category having traveled the greatest distance.

Spectators are invited to watch the race, which happens from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 20 through Wednesday, July 23, from Texas Motor Speedway’s infield. Enter through the South tunnel. Spectators must wear closed-toed shoes and wide-brimmed hats.

The Solar Car Challenge, which won the 2024 D CEO Nonprofit and Corporate Citizenship Awards’ Innovation in Education category, was established in 1993 by educator Dr. Lehman Marks. The program is designed to motivate students in science, engineering and alternative energy. Preparations for this year’s race began with educational workshops last September, though it can take teams two to three years to see their ideas come to fruition.

The 2025 race will feature a new racing division – Cruiser – which requires cars to have four doors with the solar array embedded in the body of the solar car.

For more information on the Solar Car Challenge, visit https://www.solarcarchallenge.org/challenge/media.shtml.