On Feb. 4 (Auto Show Mon.), dubbed Student Day, students from area high schools and colleges received a $7 discount on admission to the show. But a variety of student activities was an attraction as well.
On the morning of WAS Student Day, close to 500 students from 11 local high schools heard about career opportunities in an event hosted by WANADAs Auto Dealer Education Institute, where veteran sales trainer Gary Long, emceed a dealer panel representing the full gamut of automotive career possibilities. Auto dealer panelists included Wanda Cockrell, service manager, and Andrew Clegg, auto technician, DARCARS Lexus of Silver Spring; and Harold Redden and Rob Smith, officers of Fitzgerald Auto Malls. A special thanks to Steve Boden, Montgomery County ACT Foundation, on pulling together the high school presentation/auto show tour.
Schools represented were Edison, Seneca Valley, Damascus and Gaithersburg in Maryland; Springarn and Ballou in DC, and Falls Church, Marshall, South Lakes, Oxon Hill and the Center for Applied Sciences in Virginia.
In the evening, the auto show hosted its first annual Auto Tunes: Collegiate A Cappella Competition, drawing singers from American, Catholic and George Washington Universities.
We want to celebrate our students and what better way to do that than with music? says WAS Chairman Robert Fogarty.
The Catholic University group Redline A Cappella won the competition, judged by an official applause meter. Winning team members each received $30 in iTunes gift cards.
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