AGOURA HIGH AUTO SHOP TEAM MEETS CHALLENGE.Byline: - Daily News The two-student team from Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. tested its auto shop smarts Friday at the annual Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition. Fifteen teams from high schools across Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, descended on the California Speedway The California Speedway is a two-mile, low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California, similar to that of "sister track" Michigan International Speedway. It is located approximately 40 miles east of Los Angeles on the site of the former Kaiser Steel mill. in Fontana for the competition, which requires students to figure out what's wrong with a vehicle, then fix it. The Agoura team - coach/teacher John Andersen and students Jeffrey A. Lea and Ryan W. Neumann - finished ninth in the competition, missing the top prize to Ramona High School Ramona High School is a high school in Riverside, California, part of the Riverside Unified School District, and the home of the Ramona Rams. Institution Ramona's feeder middle schools are Chemawa and Sierra Middle School. in the north San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. area, said Maury Kramer, a retired engineer and volunteer organizer for the Automobile Club of Southern California The Automobile Club of Southern California was founded December 13, 1900 in Los Angeles as one of the nation's first motor clubs dedicated to improving roads, proposing traffic laws and improvement of overall driving conditions. . Each team faced a brand-new - but not working - Ford Escape, and had 90 minutes to get the sport utility vehicle up and running. A simultaneous competition was held Friday in Northern California, with the Ramona team finishing tops to go to the national competition in June in Washington, D.C., Kramer said. The teams qualified for Friday's competition after taking written exams in February. He said the intent is to encourage high schoolers to consider careers in automotive service - an industry that he said has faced difficulty filling open positions because of too few workers. ``We're hoping we can get talented young people to go onto schools and make auto service as a career,'' he said. ``There's a good living to be made.'' |
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