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Shop Profile: Overcoming Challenges To Find Success

Many shop owners get their start the old-fashioned way: Their dad or uncle owned a shop, and they grew up learning how to fix cars. Essentially, it was “in their blood” so to speak. But Matt Weber, co-owner of Clark’s Car Care, has a very ­different back story, one that starts with a detour from an ­accounting degree to take a less traveled road to shop ­ownership.

Shop Profile: From Antibiotics To Auto Body

Growing up in Flushing, Queens, N.Y., Jahid Habasi was engrossed in the automotive field. His father was a mechanic who wound up opening up his own body shop. But, once he retired, Habasi had to venture off on his own and find his own path. In 2007, Habasi entered the pharmacy program at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkhill, N.Y. “I did it to make my parents happy, to let them know that I’m book smart as well as street smart,” says Habasi. While he was in college, Habasi looked for a job. And like two magnets destined to snap together, he found himself working in a collision repair shop.

Snap-on Technical Education Program: Linn-Benton Community College Profile

The onus to help train tomorrow’s technicians and begin to close the skills gap continues to fall on community colleges and technical schools. But they don’t have to do it alone, and that’s a new concept many institutions are exploring to help advance their skills training programs. The idea involves partnerships between community colleges/tech schools and the industries they serve by coming together with a single purpose – more effectively preparing students for success.

Nominations for the 2012 Tomorrow’s Technician School of the Year Have Closed.

Nominations for the 2012 Tomorrow’s Technician School of the Year, sponsored by O’Reilly Auto Parts and WIX Filters have closed. The contest staff is in the process of choosing the Top 20 Automotive School programs. Schools picked as a Top 20 School will be notified the week of September 10 of this honor. Those Top

School Profiles

About Nominate News Schools Bonneville High School, Washington Terrace, UT: 2022 School Of The Year VIDEO: Meet Bonneville High School – The 2022 School Of The Year North Kansas City CTEC, Kansas City, MO: 2021 School Of The Year Career Bullard-Havens Technical High School: 2018 School Of The Year Career VIDEO: Meet Bullard-Havens Technical High

Finish Line:Training the Technicians of the Future Contests Underway

This nationally recognized competition, which was developed in 1990 by the Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association,is designed to help curb the shortage of qualified automotive technicians and raise the level of vocational education standards in the public school system.

Real World: ‘Diagnosing’ the Automotive Technician

The profile of those working in the automotive service industry may surprise you. As part of the next generation of technicians to enter the field, you may find it helpful to understand who will be
working with you in the bays.

Take the JOBehaviors Profile Test

Are you drawn to a career in the automotive field? Take the test and find out.

Real World – Antique Auto Museum at Hershey Profiles Horseless Carriages from the Brass Era

Antique Auto Museum at Hershey Profiles Horseless Carriages from the Brass Era The Antique Auto Museum at Hershey, located in Hershey, PA, is turning back the clock with an exhibition of horseless carriages from the brass era that will run from November 4, 2006 to May 31, 2007. The exhibition will feature a selection of

TechForce Announces Winners of Techs Rock Awards

Misael Rodriguez and Dustin Thomas are the grand-prize winners.