ADEI technician training program graduates eight from Montgomery College

ADEI technician training program graduates eight from Montgomery College

Eight young adults who started in the Automobile Dealer Education Institutes Technician Training Program two years ago finished their work and graduated from Montgomery College with Certificates of Completion last week. This week, the eight forged ahead as line technicians in the WANADA dealers service departments which sponsored them as they developed into automobile industry career professionals. Indeed, these are the results, in workforce capital terms, that WANADAs NATEF Certified Technician Training Program is designed to achieve.

The new grads are among several hundred students who have completed the two-year/ on the job/in-classroom training program, since its inception ten years ago, many of whom have gone on to become master technicians at WANADA member dealerships.

The ADEI program takes young adults who have finished high school and places them in fulltime technician assistant positions in WANADA dealer service departments where they work with technician mentors four days per week while attending classes in the basics of automotive repair at Montgomery College, Rockville and NOVA College in Alexandria and Manassas.

Were extremely proud of these students, both for their success in school and also as productive employees in dealerships, said Wil Desjardins, ADEIs services coordinator who monitors each students progress while regularly consulting with their service managers to ensure everything is on track.

ADEI currently has 16 prospective students available for interviews with dealers interested in participating in the Technician Training Program. Contact Jake Kelderman, ADEI director, at 202-237-7200 for more information, or visit http://www.adei-programs.org/ for details on the program.