Volunteer in Utah's schools building gokarts and teaching students of all ages how to use today's powerful technologies that make learning math, engineering and science fun. Chuck Smith had a small gokart club in his neighborhood. In early 2000 the U of U found out about Chuck's unique training skills and how they inspired youth to do well in math and science. Working with a small grant from the MESA/STEP program Chuck has grown from working with a few students in his garage to a program that is designed to teach all of Utah's almost 500,000 students how to learn by building gokarts to jet aircraft and far beyond.
Just as people talked about Chuck's gokart club and the need for it to be available to all students, a person during the 2004 elections told Chuck that he should run for Governor. They thought that the same ideas would help Utah grow its own high paying jobs. After four years of exploring the idea of helping people build high paying incomes, Chuck realized that we could together make Utah the richest state of the 21st century in just a few years.
Chuck has volunteered thousands of hours in High schools, Jr. Highs, elementary schools, Job Corp , Ogden Weber Applied Technology College and the U of U engineering depart. Chuck is a retired building contractor leaving the industry after a severe auto accident. He has spent the last few years studying and building from scratch industrial robots, including software, firmware and complete mechanical design and production. He knows that the next big industry is robotics. Robotics are now where computers were 30 years ago. The state has the opportunity to become a leader in this fledgling industry that is ready to explode into all walks of life.
He definitely knows how to get to the root of all complex problems and has a wealth of knowledge, experience, skill and service.
