STEAM Sports Foundation Scholarship Awarded to Charlotte Motorsport Student, Ximena Garcia-Pena

Ximena Garcia-Pena was on of seven female minority students throughout the US to be awarded $5,000 by STEAM Sports Foundation to pursue their dreams to become engineers or technicians in the automotive and motorsports industry.

Ximena Garcia-Pena was a member of Charlotte’s recent award-winning FSAE team where her research and documentation of airflow, design, and patterns played an important role in the team’s success. This fall, she will increase her involvement even further, becoming a key member of FSAE’s aerodynamic design team that has considerable interface with nearby Hendrick Motorsports. With experience in STARCCM+, Solidworks, and ZEISS Reverse Engineering, she will work with the team’s efforts to vie for first place in 2025, following a second-place overall finish in 2024. A graduate of Challenger Early College High School (Hickory, NC), her major is mechanical engineering.

To read more about the STEAM Sports Foundation Scholarship and others who won, please see this article link.