Charitable Work

MoneyGram Haas F1 Team is proud to partner with US organization Starlight Children’s Foundation. The charity was formed with a mission to deliver happiness to hospitalized children and their families and works with over 800 children’s hospitals across America. We are delighted and very proud to say that over 21 million children have been positively impacted by its endeavours. Our partnership with Starlight has supported the charity’s agenda on multiple synergies including the provision of key personnel including drivers for hospital visits in areas local to US race events. We also ran an exclusive program for children receiving treatment and their families to attend US races for an unforgettable experience away from their care setting.

In 2023, we expanded our partnership with the charity further, by creating custom-designed Starlight hospital gowns, thanks to a donation from the Gene Haas Foundation. We are thrilled to announce that 1000 gowns were donated and these gowns help provide a sense of normalcy for children during a vulnerable period in their lives.

The Gene Haas Foundation was established in 1999 by Founder and Owner of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team to support the needs of the local community, via grants to local charities such as the Boys and Girls Clubs, Food Share and Rescue Mission. Seeing a growing need for employees skilled in manufacturing across the industry, the Foundation expanded its mission to include support for manufacturing training programs throughout North America and beyond. By providing scholarship grants, sponsoring individual and team CNC competitions, and partnering with the very best CNC training programs in the world, the Foundation helps expand the availability of high-quality manufacturing technology training worldwide.

The Gene Haas Foundation donates millions of dollars every year to manufacturing education and the community. In 2022, the Gene Haas Foundation provided more than $27 million in grants, bringing the total since inception to more than $175 million.

A further donation was made in 2024 to expand the gown initiative, with a new design and new concept on the way.
 

Local School Work

We marked 2022 World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development by welcoming a class of female students from Banbury STEM Academy to gain an insight into the workings of a Formula 1 team. During the group’s time at our UK factory, the students were given a tour around our facilities, got up close with the intricate processes involved in pitstops, worked with our race engineers to decode telemetry, and sat down for a Q&A session with female staff to learn about their career paths.

In December 2023, we donated several laptops to St. Leonards Primary School, a local school situated close to our Banbury headquarters. The devices were no longer used by our team, so were repurposed to provide replacement laptops for staff and disadvantaged families with no access to ICT equipment at home. Members of MoneyGram Haas F1 Team attended the school to present the equipment to the staff.

Inspiring the Next Generation of Female Engineering

To celebrate 2023 International Women in Engineering Day, we announced a new collaboration with the American International School of Jeddah. We focus on working with STEM students at the school to bolster their learning and provide first-hand insight into the motorsport industry. The partnership takes a holistic approach to identifying barriers to progression from education into the workplace and provides awareness, mentorship and industry-based case studies to students looking to enter careers in STEM subjects.

In 2024, the team returned to promote International Women’s Day and hosted a panel between local students and Junior Aerodynamics Engineer, Anna Saad, to discuss how studying STEM subjects can lead to a career in motorsport. Saad, who was born in Riydah, Saudi Arabia met with Fatima Alramadan, a Petroleum Engineer at Saudi Aramco. The lively and engaging discussion was particularly focused on motivating the students in the audience to understand more about the many professional opportunities that studying STEM subjects can lead to, with an additional emphasis on inspiring female students to consider pursuing a career in motorsport. The audience was made up of nearly three hundred students - boys and girls - from the Al Andalus International School, American International School Jeddah, Manarat School, Dar AlFikr School, Children’s World School, and Nobel’s School.

Girls On Track STEM Education

MoneyGram Haas F1 Team joined Motorsport UK’s Girls on Track at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Formula Student program to talk with a group of local female students about their path into motorsport and provide them with an opportunity to learn more about STEM, and careers in motorsport.

The students, many of whom have never considered motorsport as a route to learning more about STEM, were given the opportunity to ask Haas personnel about how they started their career, educational choices and how they got their roles within the pinnacle of motorsport. Haas’ very own Eduardo Henrique Gavioli took part in the day, judging some of the student’s activities. By providing a fun and engaging way for students to learn about STEM, pupils were able to discover more about its applications and the routes into careers within the world of motorsport.

Spreading the Message with Partners

For two years, the team and Title Partner MoneyGram has hosted MoneyGram Haas F1 Team Dallas Day, an unforgettable experience designed to inspire students to pursue careers in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics).

This year’s event, held just before the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, brought even more excitement, innovation and engagement with the introduction of a new creative challenge – ‘Ayao’s Assignment’.

Ayao’s Assignment was created to give students a hands-on experience in what it takes to run a Formula 1 team. The assignment challenged students from local Dallas High Schools to explore one of three key aspects of team management: Engineering & Design, Human Performance and Marketing and Communications. In advance of the event, each student group was tasked with acting as Team Principal, thinking critically and creatively to solve real-world challenges faced by an Formula 1 team.