Mission of Race4Awareness
Our mission is to raise awareness and financial support for important issues that need solutions but receive little attention. Difficult problems are even harder to solve when people do not know they exist.
Race4Awareness.org is a website with a growing community of driven enthusiasts who want to turn their passions into long lasting positive impact on peoples' lives.
Race4Awareness.org intends to provide a forum that will help guide awareness efforts to success with the ultimate goal of solving problems.
Follow us in our first year -- 2010 -- where we are Racing4Awareness for two important issues: Celiac Disease and the Profession of Engineering. We encourage you be remarkable and get involved because we cannot Race4Awareness without you!
Races4Awareness in 2010
Celiac Disease
Celiac Disease -- affecting 1 out of approximately every 144 people -- prohibits one's ability to eat a protein called gluten: commonly found in wheat, oats, rye and barley. Every meal for a Celiac presents a risk of consuming gluten as even the smallest particle can trigger an auto-immune reaction. This reaction sends out anti-bodies which quickly destroy the intestinal 
lining (called villus atrophy), rendering a Celiac's digestive system damaged and incapable of absorbing nutrients (amongst a host of other symptoms). Thus, Celiacs need our help to raise awareness of this auto-immune disorder so that dining-out experiences can actually take place more frequently and safely.
Engineering Awareness
Engineers are hyper-creative, innovative, and goal oriented people who dramatically impact the world we live. Almost everything you own has been invented by an engineering design team to improve the human condition, such as your iPod, your car, your computer, or your microwave. Engineers are wildly social animals constantly working to solve our most challenging problems.
Unfortunately, there are some revolting stereotypes regarding engineers. The stereotypes include that engineers are nerdy, geeky, socially inept, or weirdoes. These adject ives hardly describe our colleagues... Engineers ROCK!
Come help correct these stereotypes and encourage more people to engineer the future with us!