Phoenix Pinewood Derby aka: phxpwd

What is it?

A pinewood derby is often confused with a soapbox race. There are vast differences. First off we will not be riding in our pinewood cars unless you happen to wight less than 5oz (the official race weight). So no hill is required and an event may be held in any space large enough to fit the amount of people attending. This is a first event so I expect less than a hundred participants. We have an eight lane track available to us for the race night and some highly experienced people to help us put on the derby.

You may have experience with a Pinewood derby

You may have even participated in a pinewood derby as a child and it was great fun watching our fathers compete by spending their nights carving, sanding drilling and painting our cars for the big day. Well our time has come to build our own cars and compete, if you are up for it. This time you get to build the car.

This is the point

I am helping organize and sponsor this event because I want to have a community and creative event for #phx. I expect greatness out of this community, after all we are the foundation for what is the greatest city ever.

Creatives, Families, Technical, Entrepreneur, All

Sign up, Build a car, Show up. It is that easy. Plus you get to have fun, eat, network and mingle with the best and the brightest Phoenix has to offer.

Organization

The finall things that need to be worked out are final registration, tshirt design, distribution of materials, event location. These things should all come together in the next two weeks and the launch date for full registration will be the 8th of Sept.

Love the idea and want to do more?

Twitter, blog and promote the event as much as you like. Events are more fun the more people that are there to participate so spread the word. :) Use the hashtag #phxpwd on twitter/plurk etc. Thanks to all that showed interest in this event from the beginning. There are already 25 people preregistered, lets see if we can make it even better, I know you can #phx.