A group of UCF football players, spirit teams, physical‑therapy doctoral candidates and Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute staff assembled on the football stadium concourse on Monday to build space‑themed motorized cars for five toddlers from the Greater Orlando and I‑4 Corridor area. The three‑hour build event produced ten customized toy cars that families test‑drove before taking them home at no cost, supported by Pegasus Partner Orlando Health. The cars were created as part of the Go Baby Go! program, a national research, design and outreach effort that supplies inexpensive mobility solutions for children and adults with limited mobility.
Go Baby Go! was launched at UCF in 2015 by Clinical Associate Professor of Physical Therapy Jennifer Tucker and typically hosts ten to fifteen workshops each year for children from six months to five years old with conditions such as Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy and osteogenesis. The recent build coincided with the lead‑up to the tenth anniversary of UCF football’s Space Game, an annual event during Space Week that begins on Oct. 25, and precedes the team’s Oct. 30 matchup with Baylor University. Orlando Health, a UCF Pegasus Partner and major sponsor of UCF athletics, continues to support the program, which also collaborates with partners in Belgium and Wales and involves students from multiple university colleges.
Press release issued by UCF Today:
https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-football-spirit-teams-join-go-baby-go-car-building-event-for-kids/
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