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Vo-Tech Schools Increase Recycled Rides Participation

The National Auto Body Council (NABC) has expanded its Recycled Rides program into vocational and technical schools and colleges across the United States.

Send Me Your Best Student – Partnering with Vo-Tech Schools

Looking to take the local vo-tech school’s best and brightest? Fat chance – unless you’ve been partnering with that vo-tech school all along. If you’re all take and no give, don’t expect instructors to do you any favors when you suddenly need to hire.

Looking for Auto Body Techs? Get Involved with Your Local Vo-Tech School

Rather than try and steal techs from a competing shop (the model for any brand-new collision location), turn mechanics into body techs or train the local HVAC technicians to fix cars instead of furnaces, go where the interest in collision repair already exists.

New Vo-Tech Student Pricing Announced for RDE Program at 2011 SEMA Show

The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) announced that new in 2011, students of vocational technical schools who are approved to attend SEMA through the SEMA Show Student Program, as well as their chaperones, will be eligible to attend SCRS’ Repairer Driven Education (RDE) series for a discounted rate of $50 per student for a

Collision Classroom Campaign to Help Buy New Furniture for Auto Body Vo-Tech Programs

The Collision Repair Education Foundation has launched the “Collision Classroom Campaign” to assist auto body vo-tech schools with the purchase of new furniture for their classrooms.   The campaign’s goal is to get 500 collision repair facilities to donate $500 (tax deductible) each to the Foundation. Each donation will stay in the donating shop’s state

Keystone/LKQ Donates $1,000 in Tools to Vo-Tech School as Part of Commerce Insurance Program

On March 16, Keystone/LKQ donated $1,000 in tools to Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School as part of MAPFRE | Commerce Insurance’s “C.A.R.E.S. in the Community” program.   Bay Path students, along with their teachers, hand-picked tools and supplies they needed from the Keystone Catalog. These tools will be used in the repair of

SCRS to Cover the Cost of Membership for Collision Repair Education Foundation Schools

As part of its ongoing effort to support industry education, the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) announced at its board meeting held during the 2010 SEMA Show that it will begin picking up the membership cost for educational facilities that provide a collision repair vocational or technical program. This offer is effective immediately to

Pennsylvania Shop Hosts Vo-Tech Student for Job Shadowing Program

Keenan Auto Body West in Edgemont, Pa., recently invited a local vo-tech student to work for a day in the shop as part of Keenan’s ongoing mentoring program. Luis Angel, a 12th-grade student at Technical College High School in Jennersville, Pa., whose goal is to become a painter, got a chance to see what it’s

CREF Creates New Part Donation Initiative

The Collision Repair Education Foundation’s new “Part of the Solution” initiative allows for the donation of leftover parts to vo-tech schools.

Collision Repair Education Foundation Seeking Donations to Support Techs of Tomorrow

With the end of the calendar year approaching, in the face of decreasing funding for vo-tech schools, the Collision Repair Education Foundation is asking the industry to make a donation to ensure that the technicians of tomorrow have the proper training, tools and equipment to adequately prepare themselves for careers in collision repair.