Auto starts its engines
Photo Credit: Silvia Reyes
Silvia Reyes, Staff Reporter, Photo Editor
February 16, 2012
Filed under Student Life
Jurupa Valley High School’s auto program is where students are able to get their engines running. Auto students are able to push their rpm’s to the limit in these classes. The auto program offers two different classes. They offer Auto1 and Auto 2.
Auto I is a study of the auto system bumper to bumper and Auto 2 is a class that covers the maintenance of an auto mobile.
If students successfully complete Auto I at JVHS, they may be eligible to earn credit at Riverside Community College.
Auto 2 consists of live work and repairs on real cars that can belong to friends, teachers, families, or even themselves.
“The program can prepare students for many future careers,” said Mr. Donn Cushing.
Accoring to Cushing, some careers that use the skills taught through JVHS’s auto program are engineering and mechanical work.
“The class is a very hands on course,” said Cushing. The class applies science and physics in real life situations. Cushing also said the Auto Program, “helps make sense of other classes.”
The Auto Program competes in the Solar Boat competition in which the students build and race boats. The Auto Program once competed in the Ford Troubleshoot Contest, but stopped a few years.
Auto classes are normally larger classes. They normally consist of roughly 30 students in Auto 1 and about 25 in Auto 2.
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