Maui auto tech students take 4th in nation
David Casayuran and Joseph Burger of Maui High School took fourth place in the national Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition in Dearborn, Michigan Tuesday.
Two-member student teams from high schools in all 50 states competed in a race at Ford headquarters, to fix identical cars that had been deliberately and identically bugged.
The first-place finishers, Morgan White and Jay Saunders of Vale High School in Vale, Oregon, earned a “perfect car” score by repairing all the deficiencies with no demerits. Their hands-on score combined with a written test taken Monday, to win them the national trophy and additional prizes.
All entered students were competing for more than $12 million in scholarship prizes.