Pinewood Derby races at the State Museum
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The track is all set up and ready to go for the 10th annual Pinewood Derby held at the Indiana State Museum.
A 125 foot track is set up for scouts to race from start to finish. The Pinewood Derby is a Boy Scouts of America type event. Cub Scouts build their own cars from wood, often times with a block of pine, plastic wheels, and metal axles.
They race their races too see who has the fastest.
Fun Run races have gone on all week for scouts and non-scouts to race their cars.
There will be many current and former Boy Scouts at the event. One is Robbie Bruner who is an Eagle Scout and has competed in the derby races in the past. At the event, he will be collecting cars and trophies as part of his Eagle Scout Project.
Those items will be given to children at Riley Children’s Hospital to participate in a Pinewood Derby event on May 16. He hopes to collect 70 cars that a Riley patient can collect and keep.
Bruner will collect those through April 15. He can be contacted at robbiebruner@aol.com.
Saturday races will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Racers have to be registered prior to 1 p.m. to compete for the qualifying race.