SLCC Automotive & Related
Technologies will host the annual Ford AAA Competition on Thursday, April 26.
Salt Lake
Community College has hosted the Ford AAA Student Auto Skills Competition since
the 1970’s. (In those days it was known as the Plymouth Troubleshooting
Contest.)
This year, 362 of the best and brightest 11th or 12th
grade auto technology students from 24 of Utah high schools took the state
qualifying exam for the honor of being one of the ten, 2 person
teams to compete in the State “hands-on” contest.
In the
"hands-on" competition, new Ford Motor Company vehicles were uniformly
"bugged" so that each team has identical malfunctions to diagnose and
repair. The competition requires repairs to be made with the highest
quality workmanship in the lowest total time.
The winning two-person team from each state and their
instructor are provided expense-paid trips (paid by Ford & AAA) to the
national finals in June 2012 in addition to thousands of dollars in tools and
in scholarship offers.
SLCC’s objective in hosting the competition is to encourage
talented young people to pursue careers as automotive service technicians after
they graduate from Salt Lake Community College in Automotive or Related
Technologies.
The agenda:
Wednesday, April 25 6:30pm – Welcome
dinner KGMC at Miller Campus.
Thursday, April 26 9:30 to 11:00 am –
Competiton – Miller Campus between MATC and MFEC west of KGMC.
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