Ivy Tech Annual Automotive Technology Skills Competition
What: Annual Automotive Technology Skills Competition
When: Friday, April 1; 7:45 a.m.-1 p.m.
Competition: 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Scholarship and Tool Awards: Noon-12:30 p.m.
Where:
Competition:Â Ivy Tech Community College Evansville Campus
Automotive Lab (Room 182); School of Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering & Applied Science
Awards: Koch Student Center (First Floor Commons3501 N. 1st Ave., Evansville
Background: The annual Automotive Skills Competition will give high school students from Tell City, South Ridge, Heritage Hills, and EVSC’s Southern Indiana Career & Tech Center, the opportunity to compete with the knowledge they have learned in their courses in high school in 8 skills stations in Ivy Tech’s Automotive Technology Lab including alignment, no start, headlight issue, tire pressure monitoring, service manual look-up, maintenance inspection, check engine light and an ASE style test. A panel of judges will determine the winners based on the completion of the skills contests.
Four Ivy Tech Academic and Tool Scholarships will be awarded. They include:
- First place: $2,000 Academic Scholarship; $1,000 Tool Scholarship
- Second place: $1,500 Academic Scholarship; $500 Tool Scholarship
- Third Place: $1,000 Academic Scholarship; $500 Tool Scholarship
- Fourth Place: $500 Academic Scholarship; $250 Tool Scholarship
Contact at the Event: Chris Kaufman, program chair, Automotive Technology Program
