The Collision Repair Education Foundation announced that Rust-Oleum has donated epoxy floor coating to five collision schools in need. The schools are all Education Foundation Ultimate Collision Education Makeover grant applicants and have agreed to prep the floors and apply the donated product.
The collision school programs that received the donated epoxy floor coating in 2014 include:
- Contra Costa Community College (San Pablo, Calif.)
- Maxwell High School of Technology (Lawrenceville, Ga.)
- Regional Career Tech Center (Ypsilanti, Mich.)
- Tennessee Technology Center at Livingston (Livingston, Tenn.)
- Thomas Edison Career and Technical High School (Jamaica, N.Y.)
“Through our Rust-Oleum Cares initiative, we are happy to support educational organizations that lack the funding required to provide students with top-notch facilities,” said Steve Gillmann, Rust-Oleum vice president of human resources and administration. “Allowing students to work in a facility that looks professional, orderly and clean creates a better environment for learning. It also demonstrates a personal respect for the students as individuals.”
Added Collision Repair Education Foundation Director of Development Brandon Eckenrode, “If the industry is serious about attracting new students, that starts in the collision school programs, and together we can assist these instructors and students by helping to provide them with a professional learning environment. Through Rust-Oleum’s continued generosity, we have been able to assist a collision school program every other month and, when viewing the before and after pictures, the schools are almost unrecognizable with how well they look. I invite the industry to take this program nationwide with us by adopting a local collision school program and help in their efforts to ensure the collision program looks professional.”
