The Collision Engineering Program (CEP) has partnered with Crash Champions to sponsor eight CEP students from the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois, according to a press release.
The students will apprentice at local Crash Champions repair centers during the course of their two-year program. They will rotate between lab or classroom instruction and their apprenticeships every eight weeks.
The sponsorship is a first for Crash Champions, but the company hopes to continue by sponsoring other CEP schools nationwide eventually. The College of Lake County’s Automotive Collision Repair Instructor, Octavio Cavazos, said that automotive programs need this support from the industry.
“Schools don't just need employers, we need partners,” Cavazos stated, via the press release. “It takes an industry to raise a technician, and it's about so much more than just giving our students a place to work. It's a long-term commitment to being a mentor and guiding new collision engineers throughout their journey.”
