Through the sponsorship of Bar’s Products,
CARSTAR, Colormatch, Enterprise Rent-A-Car,
Ford Motor Company,
I-CAR,
and Panasonic, 1,000
Cintas technician shirts will be distributed
to secondary and post-secondary collision
students through the Collision Repair Education Foundation this fall.
The student technician shirt project also helped
raise $14,000 for the Foundation’s Collision
Repair Education Campaign fund that helps
provide student scholarships, school grants, and
the Foundation’s Ultimate Collision Education
Makeover grant. In addition to providing a
significant discount on the technician shirts
and sponsor patches, Cintas Corporation donated
the shipping costs of the 1,000 completed
technician shirts.
These technician shirts will be distributed to
schools who apply for the Education Foundation’s
2011 Ultimate Collision Education Makeover grant
and those students attending NACE and SEMA.
Education Foundation Executive Director, Scott
Kruger commented, “To date, the Education
Foundation has been able to provide nearly 5,000
Cintas technician uniforms to collision students
nationwide through the support of the shirt
sponsors. Instructors share stories with us that
these uniforms provide their collision students
with a new level of respect around school and
other school departments are jealous of the
support that the collision program receives. On
behalf of the Foundation staff and the students
that we are able to provide these uniforms to,
thank you to the sponsors. We look forward to
continuing this program and supporting the
future of the collision industry.”
Those companies interested in sponsoring future
technician uniforms should contact Education
Foundation Associate Director of Development
Brandon Eckenrode at Brandon.Eckenrode@ed-
foundation.org or 847-463-5244.
Additional information about the
Collision Repair Education Foundation can be
found online at www.CollisionEducationFoundation
.org.
