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Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills National Finals Competition

5 June 2000

Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills National Finals Competition

    As many as 10 million new cars will be equipped to use a high-tech set of services called telematics by 2005. Tomorrow's technicians will need new skills to service the electronics required to operate these systems.

    The Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition is helping guarantee today's student techs receive the training they need by distributing more than $10 million in scholarships and prizes.

What:    Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills National Finals Competition.
         The nation's top 100 student auto techs in two-person teams
         representing each state, competing against the clock and each 
         other to repair 50 identically "bugged" Ford vehicles.

When:    Monday, June 19, 2000
         Hands-on Contest:  9:15 to 10:45
         Media Briefing & Awards Presentation:  11:00 to 11:45 A.M.

Where:   Independence Avenue and Ohio Drive, NW
         Just south of the Lincoln Memorial
         (New Location)