Hunterdon County Polytech Automotive Technology seniors place at UTI Top Tech Challenge

Hunterdon County Polytech Profession & Complex Faculty seniors David Rodrigues and Joseph Valko gained fourth put at the Common Technological Institute (UTI) Best Tech Obstacle, held previous month at the Institute’s Bloomfield Campus. They entered the occasion confident they could get what they have discovered in Polytech’s Automotive Know-how application and implement people capabilities in competitiveness.

Rodrigues is enrolled in Automotive Technologies I, and Joseph in Automotive Technological innovation II. Owing to scheduling conflicts, nonetheless, the team did not entirely coach for the Major Tech Challenge with instructor Christopher Scheuerman, according to the university.

Rodrigues states even without the need of the full schooling, he felt prepared mainly because of the focused, fingers-on studying he experiences in his Polytech classroom.

“We’ve figured out a lot of things at Polytech,” he reported. “I wouldn’t have known the stations at the opposition if I didn’t learn it here very first. My preferred aspect of Polytech is the store times and being equipped to function on the cars and trucks…and staying capable to find out very considerably every little thing about a vehicle.”

Rodrigues and Valko competed collectively against 31 other groups to perform hands-on tasks in five stations testing their understanding and technical capabilities with the motor, brakes, tool and aspect identification, electrical and scan resource. They also took a 50-question quiz.

Their gain came with a Snap On roll cart toolbox and 25% scholarships to the Common Technical Institute.

Rodrigues is committed to UTI and will examine in the automotive program. As a Polytech university student, he will obtain an further 10% scholarship to go after this following period of education and instruction. His target is to manage higher grades to come to be qualified for the Institute’s Porsche plan. Even though he presently functions at Rossi Chevrolet, his purpose is to ultimately perform for Porsche.

Valko also strategies to go to UTI and discover much more in the Vehicle & Diesel method. He at this time works at Ditschman/Flemington Ford as an categorical technician executing automotive upkeep, oil variations, multi-place inspections, tires and essential repairs and recalls. His place at the dealership is a Structured Discovering Expertise by means of Polytech, which enables him to do the job while attending significant college to improve the palms-on studying he gets in his area of curiosity.

Scheuerman says Rodrigues and Valko are in the best 5% in their course and are equally headed towards dazzling futures for the reason that they operate challenging at every thing they do.

Hunterdon County Polytech Career & Complex Substantial School is the district’s shared-time superior university that prepares college students for a seamless changeover to faculty and vocation paths. HCVSD also operates an Adult & Continuing Instruction university and 3 science-based mostly substantial faculty academies: the Biomedical Sciences Academy, the Computer Science & Applied Engineering Academy and the Environmental Sustainability & Engineering Academy. Discover much more at www.hcvsd.org.