Raceday 2026 is right around the corner! Active BAA members will receive the 2026 Raceday Preview in their email soon! Please see our membership page to check your status as an active member of the Buggy Alumni Association. If you need to renew your membership, please do send us a membership update request, and we’ll be sure to get the Raceday Preview to you ASAP once its released. If keeping up with annual dues is a hassle, consider becoming a Golden Goose Lifetime Member, and your donation will help keep the buggy enthusiasm running for generations!

Supporting the Buggy Alumni Association is a great way to support the greater buggy community. We have teams of dedicated volunteers documenting the history of the sport, facilitating the raceday broadcast, hosting events for students, friends, family, and alumni year round, and connecting students with resources to help keep their team on the course.

The teams committee has a new revision of The Essential Build Book. This is a major rework thanks to DG’s feedback while building their first buggy, Banta! This year, teams received financial support from the BAA to fund safety improvements, bringing older buggies up to modern safety standards.

From our history and website committees, we’ve published the earliest known Raceday video – the Finals of Raceday 1930! We have updated our database for 1930 and added photos of each of the 8 buggies that competed that year to our gallery. Our plans to post more historical Racedays to YouTube continues. Those who attend Carnival this year will get a special sneak peek – If you’re back for your 35th Reunion (Class of ’91) or you were in CIA 50 years ago (1976), make sure to stop by Buggy Showcase (or find the BAA with a laptop) and you’ll get to watch your Raceday, in preparation for Raceday 2026.

We continue to expand our Buggy photo gallery, with over 41,000 photos and videos of buggy from the past 126 years now on our site. And the (daunting) task of tagging and captioning all of those photos for easy viewing reference presses on. We’ve continued to update our database with more race information from the 1980s-1990s, trying to make it as complete as possible (including rosters).

Safe travels! Get hyped! We’ll see you on the course!

The Spring 2026 Buggy Enhancement Grant application will remain open through raceday 2026. After you submit your application, expect an email from the committee the following week with questions and concerns that they would like to see addressed. Once you have responded to the committee’s feedback, we’ll hold the final vote on your grant proposal.

Apply Here:
http://cmubuggy.org/2026springgrant

Keeping grant applications open throughout the fall allowed us to better serve the buggy community by engaging with students closer to the moment of inspiration for their proposal. This doubled the number of projects that the committee was able to consider last semester. Please note that proposals for larger dollar amounts may be asked to wait until the start of the next semester so that other projects can be considered along side them.

Thank you for all of our Golden Goose Lifetime Members who have made this program possible. If you would like to support this program, a contribution of $1,000 to the Buggy Endowed Fund will earn you a Golden Goose Lifetime Membership to the BAA. These funds are invested by the university, and the return on that investment perpetually funds the Buggy Enhancement Grant program, making the sport safer, faster, and more fun for all who enjoy it for many years to come!

Become a Lifetime Member Here:
http://cmubuggy.org/membership

Apply Here:
http://cmubuggy.org/2026springgrant

Submissions are due at midnight this Saturday, the 31st. The committee will meet next week for the initial discussion and voting, and applicants will have 7 days to respond to the committee’s feedback before final voting.

We have $15,000 available for this round of funding! This money belongs to you as a member of the buggy community to enhance your enjoyment of the sport. If you have an idea to make the sport safer, faster, or more fun, we want to hear from you!

Proposals can be specific to your team. Please include some details on how the community as a whole will benefit from funding your project. For example, you might share documentation of your process, publish a video, or give a talk about your findings. You might build something to collect better data during rolls, test out a new material, or build something to make your chores easier.

Apply Here:
http://cmubuggy.org/2026springgrant

For more information on the grant program, including previously approved grant applications, materials and findings from previously approved grants, how to spend your grant money, and more, please read All About Buggy Enhancement Grants.

Apply Here:
http://cmubuggy.org/2026springgrant

Welcome back! It is time to submit your ideas for Buggy Enhancement Grants for the spring semester! If you have ideas that you think will enhance your buggy experience, we want to hear from you!

Submissions are due by January 31st, and will be reviewed by the committee the following week. Applicants will have 1 week to respond to the committee’s feedback before the final voting.

Proposals can be specific to your team. Please include some details on how the community as a whole will benefit from funding your project. For example, you might share documentation of your process, publish a video, or give a talk about your findings. You might build something to collect better data during rolls, test out a new material, or build something to make your chores easier.

Apply Here:
http://cmubuggy.org/2026springgrant

Last semester, $7,370 was awarded to grant recipients, a new record! Every project that applied during the initial campaign was fully funded. We kept applications open for the full semester, which allowed us to fund and additional 3 projects!

For more information on the grant program, including previously approved grant applications, materials and findings from previously approved grants, how to spend your grant money, and more, please read All About Buggy Enhancement Grants.

Our members expressed their confidence in the candidates that were running unopposed, and Lewis Rockwell has won the race for Vice President.

If you are interested in running for a BAA board position, we will be holding elections for VP, Treasurer, Communications, Teams Liaison (formerly known as Quartermaster), and Rolls Reporter next year. In the mean time, you can get involved with the BAA by joining a committee. Reach out to the committee chairs on Discord if you are interested.

The elected positions for next years BAA Board are:

President – Jeremy Tuttle

Vice President – Lewis Rockwell

Secretary – Christian Lanuza

Treasurer – Wade Gordon

Communications Chair – Cynthia Xu

Graphics Chair – Sam Connor

Information Services Manager – Rob Siemborski

Teams Liaison – Diya Nuxoll

Broadcast Chair – Matt Gallabrese

Rolls Reporter – Dan Becerra

Polls close tonight! Make your voice heard and unlock that sweet nerdy satisfaction that comes from filling out a Ranked Choice ballot.

Read about the candidates here: https://cmubuggy.org/news/2025/05/2025-baa-elections/

Fill out your ballot here: https://cmubuggy.org/vote