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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Governor Dalrymple is officially recognizing February as Career & Technical Education Month in North Dakota.
In the proclamation it states that CTE is a positive addition to a student’s success in school. When students are engaged in their learning and are able to apply that learning to an area of interest, they benefit.
Director of the Sheyenne Valley Area Career and Technology Center Jeff Bopp thanked all career and technical education educators for all they do for their students and for helping them apply academic knowledge.
In other news: The Ford / AAA Student Auto Skills competition fosters young people’s interest in the automotive industry through a spirited nationwide competition with opportunities to win prizes, scholarships, tools and awards along with an experience that could help shape the future of their careers.
The competition is co-sponsored by AAA and Ford Motor Company. Its objective is to encourage talented young people to pursue careers as automotive service technicians. AAA and Ford wholeheartedly support this objective and are committed to this program as an investment in the future of our young people and improved automotive service for AAA members, Ford Motor Company customers and all motorists.
Everyone who registers gets the opportunity to demonstrate their automotive knowledge and qualify for prizes by taking a written exam.
Those students scoring the highest (typically the top ten teams) participate in a “hands-on” competition within their respective state, challenging students to diagnose and fix uniformly “bugged” new Ford vehicles as quickly as possible while ensuring quality workmanship.
The winning two-person team from each state and their instructor is provided an expense-paid trip to the national finals.
The national finals include a written test and a “hands-on” competition, similar to the “hands-on” competition at the state level, but with a different, new Ford vehicle. The team with the fewest quality-of-workmanship demerits and the best combined total score of repair time and written exam scores will be the winner.
Prizes:
Students win scholarships, trophies, apparel, certificates, shop manuals, trips and automotive equipment. Instructors are eligible to win equipment, service publications, trophies and prestige for their schools. Opportunities with the Ford ASSET program will be available to many of the competition finalists.
The 2015 grand-prize will be an all-expense paid trip to the Wood Brothers Racing facility where the students and instructor will work on race cars and learn from top automotive engineers. As part of the job-shadow experience, the winners will also attend a race as VIP.
Jobs and Education:
AAA has more than 8,000 approved auto repair facilities, club-owned fleets and repair centers regularly in need of quality technicians.
By being a contestant, your name, address and email is provided to Ford Motor Company dealers, AAA club-owned fleets, AAA approved auto repair facilities and sponsoring organizations of the competition.