3M “Hire Our Heroes” Scholarships and Tool Grants for Returning Veterans and their Families
3M is offering special opportunities for deserving collision repair students that are currently serving or have recently served in the military. Special awards will also be available for current collision repair students that have immediate family members who are currently serving or have recently served in the military.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicant must meet one of the following requirements:
- A post-secondary student who is studying collision repair and is currently serving or has recently served in the military.
- A high school senior or a post-secondary student who is studying collision repair and has an immediate family member currently serving or has served in the
military.
AWARD: Awards will be determined by financial need, future plans, and past academic achievements of the student.
NOTE: If you are a veteran who is NOT currently studying in a collision school but are interested in attending school to learn collision repair Click here to learn more and apply
AASP-MA Tool Grant
AASP-MA is offering tool kits to deserving collision repair students in Massachusetts.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicant must be a high school senior or a post-secondary student whois studying collision repair in the state of Massachusetts. Preference will be given to applicants that have successfully completed at least one full semester in the school’s collision repair program.
AWARD: 10 $1,000 (retail) tool kits will be awarded. The kits include the following items from Mac Tools:
- Flex head cut-off tool (whizzer)
- 4 piece locking plier set
- 44 pc deluxe socket set 1/” drive
- 25pc torx/torx plus drivers set
- Welding gloves
- Welder’s goggles w/flipup lens
- Windshield locking strip tool
2013 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Paul Ballota – Shawsheen Valley Technical High School (Billerica, MA)
William Clough – Shawsheen Valley Technical High School (Billerica, MA)
Yscasia Cummings – Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School (South Easton, MA)
ABRA Auto Body & Glass Tool Grant
The ABRA Auto Body & Glass Tool Grant will provide collision students with the funding needed to continue and enhance their education in collision repair. For the winning students, this scholarship will go towards purchasing tools from the NATEF tool list.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicant must be a high school senior or post-secondary student from select collision repair programs that plan on graduating school in 2013 and entering the workforce immediately following graduation.
AWARD: 8 tool scholarships will be awarded in the amount of $2,000 (retail) each.
2013 AWARD RECIPIENTS
James Gross – Warren Tech (Lakewood, CO)
Mike Thompson – Laramie Community College (Cheyenne, CO)
Tessa Brammer – Laramie Community College (Cheyenne, WY)
Nina Hunter – Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
Jessie Jensen – Bridgerland Applied Technology College (Logan, UT)
Rodney Dean – Lincoln College of Technology (Indianapolis, IN)
Huey Lewis – Dunwoody College of Technology (Minneapolis, MN)
Joshua Hausman – Lincoln College of Technology (Nashville, TN)
AkzoNobel’s The Most Influential Women of the Collision Repair Industry Scholarship
On behalf of AkzoNobel’s The Most Influential Women of the Collision Repair Industry, AkzoNobel has donated funds to the Education Foundation in order to provide young women with the funding needed to continue and enhance their education in collision repair.
ELIGIBILITY: Applicant must be a female high school senior who plans to continue her education in collision repair after graduation or a female post-secondary student who will use the monies for post-secondary education in collision repair.
AWARD: Two scholarships of $5,000 will be awarded, one to a secondary student and one to a post-secondary student; three runners-up scholarships of $2,500 will be awarded in each category.
2013 AWARD RECIPIENTS
James Gross – Warren Tech (Lakewood, CO)
Mike Thompson – Laramie Community College (Cheyenne, CO)
Tessa Brammer – Laramie Community College (Cheyenne, WY)
Nina Hunter – Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
Jessie Jensen – Bridgerland Applied Technology College (Logan, UT)
Rodney Dean – Lincoln College of Technology (Indianapolis, IN)
Huey Lewis – Dunwoody College of Technology (Minneapolis, MN)
Joshua Hausman – Lincoln College of Technology (Nashville, TN)
The Alcoa/Collision Repair Education Foundation aluminum repair training grant must be done jointly between a collision instructor and a collision student. The winning instructor/student pair will travel to the I-CAR Tech Centre in Appleton, WI one of two training weeks and will be trained on aluminum repair techniques including:
CCC Information Services has donated funds to support the CCC Michael Salvatore Memorial Student Repair Technician Scholarship, honoring longtime CCC team member Michael Salvatore. This scholarship rewards students that complete their education and find employment in the collision industry.
Chicago Pneumatic is offering kits of hand tools to deserving collision repair students through a nationwide student grant.
GEICO Philanthropic Foundation is offering the GEICO Scholarship and Tool Grant Program, which will benefit students studying collision repair in New York; Washington, DC; Florida; and California. The selected students will each receive $1,500 for educational expenses and to purchase tools from the NATEF Tool List.
PPG has donated $20,000 offer student scholarships to help with tuition and other costs associated with their technical education.
Sherwin Williams is offering primer packs to deserving collision repair students through a nationwide student grant.
