Auto Trades students donate retrofitted car to rehab hospital
Students in the Montgomery County Students Automotive Trades Foundation, Inc. (ATF) have already shown their skill in auto repair, body work and sales in the programs licensed used-car dealership. Now they have modified and donated a 2001 Saturn to the Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland. The car is to be used as a training tool for patients who have had an injury, illness or age-related change and need adaptive driving devices and techniques.
The ATF is a nonprofit group that WANADA helped found in 1978. Harold Redden of Fitzgerald Auto Mall is the current president and WANADA CEO Gerard Murphy is secretary. The program has 400 students from four high schools: Damascus, Seneca Valley, Gaithersburg and Thomas Edison Career Center.
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