On Saturday, September 17, State Senator Ed Kennedy was the official starter for the fifth annual Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race. The Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race is an annual STEAM event held on the third Saturday of every September in Lowell. Kinetic sculptures are human-powered, all-terrain sculptures made from new and repurposed materials and engineered to race over streets, water, mud, and sand. The Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race strives to inspire artists, engineers, performers, and visionaries of the future by promoting the synthesis of the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) fields, disruptive innovation, and physical activity. This year’s race was the largest yet with 19 entries from across the country participating.
The first Lowell Kinetic Sculpture took place in September of 2016, when Senator Kennedy was the Mayor of Lowell. Since that time, he has been a big supporter of the race. “Bianca and Michael do a spectacular job of organizing the race down to the last detail. It is my favorite Lowell event”.
The Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race always draws a large crowd and somehow the weather is always great on race day. After successful races in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, the race was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid pandemic. But the 2022 version of the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture was the best ever. Congratulations to Maxine Farkas, Howard Amidon, Charlotte Niedermann, Sarah Atherton, Meghan Harrah, Lisa Corkum, and everyone else who helped to make the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race a huge success.
