Club Mission

• To teach students how cars work, and how to take care of them.
• To teach good driving practices and techniques.
• To teach simple routine maintenance procedures and how to accomplish more complex repairs.
• To teach about the laws of the road.
• To teach students about recent advances in automotive technology.

Events & Topics

Club MEETINGS on Thursdays occur in Rm. 21 at 1:00pm. These meetings are club planning meetings and discussion sessions on the activities to be completed that afternoon.  We also have system and maintenance how-to  discussions.  Pro tips, tool talk and car talk are the rule.  Open to anyone who would like to attend.

Club WORKSHOPS on Thursdays at 3:30 pm, are car repair shop sessions.  Repairs are performed on students’ cars or other donor cars.  Tire changes, brake changes, oil changes, tuneups are routinely completed.  Sometimes shocks, belts, exhausts or batteries are replaced.  Fluid checks, winterizing and other routine maintenance is accomplished. Students work on their own or donor cars and actually perform needed maintenance and repairs, learning from the hands-on experience.

Next Meeting:

1:00 pm Thursday  Oct 3.  Club organization and plans.

3:30 pm Thursday Oct 10. We will be doing an oil change, and changing some brake pads.

 

Skills & Benefits

Students learn basic automotive engineering concepts, how their cars work, diagnostics and repair.    By participating in club shop sessions and meetings, and in hands-on repair sessions students gain competence in the operation and maintenance of their cars.

Additional Resources

Many students bring their own cars, but this is not required. Students help each other learn and perform needed maintenance on donor cars too.