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Safety Awareness Days are centered on students and their activities in automobiles. The main focus is to make students more aware of the risks they take while in a car (as the driver or as a passenger) and how to minimize these risks in order to be safe.
 A variety of auto safety-related community organizations collaborate with MAKUS at schools to present activity centers where small groups of students work throughout the day. Awareness Day partners include the Chattanooga/Hamilton County Health Department, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Tennessee Safety Council, the Chattanooga Police Department, Norfolk-Southern Railroad Safety and the County Court system. Among the centers are a driving simulator and ‘No Zone’ Truck, computer videos such as AAA's Driver-ZED, and the National Transportation & Highway Safety Administration’s ‘Traffic Safety Box.’ MAKUS often works with a local radio station to add a live remote broadcast from the school.
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