ADVISORY/Media Alert: Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills National Finals Competition.Business & News Editors ADVISORY...for Monday Monday: see week. (June June: see month. 19) --(BUSINESS WIRE) As many as 10 million new cars will be equipped to use a high-tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. set of services called telematics Originally coined to mean the convergence of telecommunications and information processing, the term later evolved to refer to automation in automobiles. GPS navigation, integrated hands-free cellphones, wireless communications and automatic driving assistance systems all come under the by 2005. Tomorrow's technicians will need new skills to service the electronics required to operate these systems. The Ford/AAA Student Auto (AUTOmatic) Refers to a wide variety of devices that perform unattended operations. Skills Competition is helping guarantee today's student techs receive the training they need by distributing more than $10 million in scholarships and prizes.
What: Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills National Finals Competition.
The nation's top 100 student auto techs in two-person teams
representing each state, competing against the clock and each
other to repair 50 identically "bugged" Ford vehicles.
When: Monday, June 19, 2000
Hands-on Contest: 9:15 to 10:45
Media Briefing & Awards Presentation: 11:00 to 11:45 A.M.
Where: Independence Avenue and Ohio Drive, NW
Just south of the Lincoln Memorial
(New Location)
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