STEAM Cathedral

10/02/2025

🏎️💡 Time at STEAM Cathedral is always about hands-on learning and growth! Over the past few months our students continued to learn automotive skills, practice teamwork, and apply real-world life lessons in a fun, safe environment.

From under-the-hood learning to stepping outside comfort zones, our students drive their curiosity and confidence forward—because learning is always fun when you're allowed to get your hands dirty! 🛠️✨

07/11/2025

Speaking of shirts... we also have a limited number of Trotters Hot Rod Club tees for sale at our booth during Goodguys Rod & Custom Association this weekend!

As the caretakers of the Trotters' custom '35 Ford hauler, memorabilia, and history we designed these shirts to honor the legacy of the first Black hot rod club in Columbus (established in 1953!).

Visit our booth on Saturday from 1-3PM to meet the three remaining living original members, listen as they swap some amazing stories, and maybe even have them autograph your shirt!

All proceeds go to fund our youth development programs and the restoration of the Trotters' hauler.

07/10/2025

Starting tomorrow you can stop by our booth at Goodguys Rod & Custom Association Columbus at the Ohio Expo Center & State Fairgrounds to purchase your own limited edition '25 STEAM Cathedral/Goodguys tee!

All proceeds help fund our hands-on education as we properly train young people on the joys and benefits of working with their hands AND brains in motorsports and automotive arts.

07/09/2025

A heartfelt thank you to Bill and Nick at Visionary Signs for taking so much time out of their busy day yesterday to provide some of our students a fantastic overview on how to produce and apply vehicle vinyl.

The Visionary team were patient instructors encouraging students to get hands-on and make mistakes, then teaching them how to fix those mistakes, along with methods to reduce the potential for those difficulties to occur in the first place. They exhibited a perfect example of the type of workplace partner STEAM Cathedral exposes our students to.

Oh, and that trailer they're working on...that's our karting trailer getting a much needed makeover. We may be biased but we think it's looking pretty good. 😍

Come decide for yourself in-person at our booth during the Goodguys Rod & Custom Association Columbus car show this weekend at the Ohio Expo Center & State Fairgrounds. 👍

07/09/2025

Finally, after more than 40 years of sitting dormant, it lives again! 🤘

Visit our booth at Goodguys Rod & Custom Association Columbus, this weekend to hear the Pontiac 400 that will power Eric’s ‘67 Firebird.

06/28/2025

We’re headed to Goodguys 2025!
Cathedral Land and Speed Company is taking students on the ride of a lifetime to Goodguys in Columbus — but we need your help to get there. Check out our latest newsletter to find out how you can help sponsor a student. https://mailchi.mp/7cbab6b0c635/goodguys2025
Goodguys Rod & Custom Association

Honor the Past — Invest in the Future. Sponsor a Steam Cathedral student for the 27th Summit Racing Nationals presented by PPG, (aka Goodguys 2025).

06/17/2025

It’s been a whirlwind since we moved into our very own space at the beginning of the year, but here are a few updates…

This past weekend Maxwell and Halene served as service crew at the Southern Ohio Forest Rally, the fifth round of the American Rally Association National Championship. They assisted the Savage Rallysport crew on Dave Wallingford’s M-Sport Ford Fiesta R5 and Seamus Burke’s wild Ford Es**rt, helping Dave and codriver Leanne Junnila secure a 5th overall finish and Seamus and codriver Gary McElhinney secure 7th overall and 2nd in class! 🏆

A few weeks ago we took Ka’lup to Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for his first experience at a race track; ride-a-long laps in a race-prepped 650hp C7 Corvette was the highlight of the day, narrowly beating out the Amish donuts sampled on the way to the track.😋

These experiences made core memories for the students for sure; now we’re gearing up to prep the next group of students to be able to take advantage of similar future opportunities as we serve up a unique eight-week mash-up of our intro to motorsports and intro to fabrication curriculums later this month.

Those are just the tip of the iceberg from the past few weeks, so much more has been happening in the new shop with new students being onboarded, existing students maturing and growing in skills and responsibility, and significant progress being made on the ‘67 Camaro and ‘77 MGB restoration projects.

Smash the like button and follow along to stay tuned for more updates! 👍

10/16/2024

43º, hail, and periods of rain...our final karting track day of 2024 was a doozy!

Yesterday we journeyed to G&J Kartway one more time as a make-up date for one of our Intro to Motorsports: Karting 101 students and, despite the challenging weather, growth and fun were experienced by all.

This year we took each 101 class to a karting track for their first driving experience and also took our 102 students to a race track weekly for a total of 10 track days and one sanctioned race. We racked up more than 60 hours of on-track time on a shoe-string budget; great results by any metric and especially for karts running engines dismissed as too old to be relevant any longer!

Regularly taking five, or more, high-strung fast two-stoke race karts and running them for hours on end with new drivers is not for the faint of heart. However, by mentoring the students to follow – and help iteratively improve – our prep and maintenance systems, all karts were consistently performing without issue by mid-summer.

A big thank you to Comet Kart Sales for their patient advice and skilled work on our engine top-ends, and to Gary at G & J and Elmer at Wilmington Raceway Park for maintaining excellent race facilities we can utilize to teach our students advance skills.

2024 was a great first year for our karting program; wait until we share our news for ’25... 😉

10/09/2024

A big thank you to Jim Newman, founder of Creative Tool & Die, for sharing your story with Maxwell and demonstrating the tools and techniques you used to modify our new kart hubs.

STEAM Cathedral exposes our pre-apprenticeship students to disparate yet thriving real-world businesses to radically expand their concept of what it looks like to work, live, and thrive.

It’s been our experience that small investments of time and attention today coalesce into life-giving success for our youth in the future.

If you desire to invest in our growing programs, reach out today.

10/03/2024

Steady progress is being made on the “Shermaro,” the 1967 Camaro RS our pre-apprenticeship students are learning to restore.

Maxwell is currently cutting out rotten sections and preparing surfaces so he can weld in new panels.

09/30/2024

Very proud of Joey (2nd) and Maxwell (3rd); their character shined through the gloomy grey mist at the track yesterday.

Despite our best efforts to set them up for success in their first race, they were thrown into a very difficult position having only practiced on a damp track once and never previously turning a lap in full rain. Yet despite the uncomfortable and unpredictable conditions they never once complained, instead listening intently to their coaching and focusing on the job at hand.

Racing is fun and earning a position on the podium is always the goal, but the real value of motorsport is how it reveals our true nature through the tests and trials leading up to, and in, competition, and yesterday Joey and Maxwell exhibited true integrity. 👍

Here’s hoping we’ll finally be dry by the first race next season!

09/24/2024

Wondering what we’ve been up to the past few weeks? A lot.
But before we could post any recent images they were all ground to dust by an 18-wheeler. 😲

Let our mistake serve as a PSA: always have your images automatically backed up to your favorite cloud. And yes, device insurance is worth the cost. 👍