Las Vegas Students Win Auto Repair Contest
Two students from the Southeast Career Technical Academy grabbed first place in the annual Ford/AAA Auto Skills competition.
Ibrahim Samuel and Abdullah Marroquin took the top honors. The team won the competition by first completing a written exam and then quickly fixing a disabled vehicle. The two students will now represent Nevada in a nationwide competition set for June in Dearborn, Michigan.
The second place team was from Palo Verde High School in Summerlin. The top teams walked away with $146,000 in scholarship money from the best technical schools in the country, along with other prizes from AAA.