The Work-Van Project: Students Upgrade Skills and County Vehicles

About the Program

Category: Children and Youth (Best in Category)

Year: 2018

The instructors in the auto body department at the Advanced Career Education (ACE) Center at Highland Springs High School in Henrico County, Virginia made their students’ classroom lessons become reality by partnering with Henrico County Public Schools’ (HCPS) Department of Construction and Maintenance. During the 2017-18 school year, students in the auto body classroom began painting the fleet of work vans used by the Construction and Maintenance Department. This program allows the vans to be painted at a substantial savings, while the students at the Advanced Career Education Center at Highland Springs gain practical firsthand experience in vehicle painting. To date, the students have painted four of the HCPS’s work vans. Because of the program, auto body students take substantial pride in their school and in their accomplishments.