Winners Announced in Borg-Warner Automotive/SAE Poster Contest

1 March 1999
Winners Announced in Borg-Warner Automotive/SAE Poster Contest
    DETROIT, March 1 -- Ten talented high school students from
the Detroit metropolitan area have been selected as the top winners in the
twenty-second annual High School Poster Contest sponsored by Borg-Warner
Automotive, Inc. .  The contest is held in conjunction with the
annual SAE International Congress & Exposition at Cobo Center, March 1-4,
1999.  The contest was open to all high school students in the SAE Detroit
Section geographic areas that include the tri-county area as well as Ann
Arbor, Jackson and Toledo, OH areas.  The winners, selected from a field of
sixty-two entrants, will be honored during the Family Night program at the SAE
Congress March 2.
    This year's first place winner is a student of Eisenhower High School,
Matt Witek, who will be receiving a $1,000 scholarship to the college of his
choice.  Second place winner, Paul Bershas, a student of West Bloomfield High
School, will receive a $600 scholarship to the college of his choice.  The
third place winner, Amie Woolever, a student of Oakland Technical Center, will
receive a $300 scholarship to a college of her choice.
    Remaining prize winners will each receive a $100 U.S. Savings Bond.  They
are Jonathan Folden and Evan Kelly from Lahser High School; Jason Elliott and
Sheila Kennedy from Eisenhower High School; Adam Bridgewater and Erin Kessling
of Oakland Technical Center-NW; and Steven Oliver from Pankow Vocational
Technical School.
    The winning entries depicted part of the theme of the 1999 SAE Congress,
"Value for our World: The Innovation Challenge."  Posters were judged on
theme, excellence, originality and aesthetics.  Representing the automotive
industry and education community, contest judges were from DaimlerChrysler
Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, Electro-Matic,
Borg-Warner Automotive, Lawrence Technological University and the Center for
Creative Studies.