Madison Automotive Apprentices

[Senor_Taylor]

Hey all! Exciting news!

It's been pretty hush-hush for a while, but now I'm free to share this program with you guys. I was originally approached by our faculty adviser, Dr. Borg a few months ago about a project being led by a few JMU higher-ups and former President Linwood Rose to get a Motorsports program started at JMU and to have MM involved. The coolest news was that JMU was purchasing a renovating a garage nearby campus for the program that MM would be allowed to use for meetings and instruction. Details were few and far between due to all of the red tape.

This program will be dynamic and ever-changing based on feedback and performance, but essentially JMU has a non-profit set up to offer courses that instruct in all things Motorsports. These courses will not be for credit or certification and will not require you to be a JMU student. They are planning to offer these courses in short intensive sessions in between JMU class schedules and the first one is in August. The first courses will focus on classic air cooled Porsche restoration including a full rebuild of a motor and eventually leading into body work and then hopefully down the road, leading to even more.

The "dream" is that if these courses are successful, it could lead into a Motorsports Management degree, an Automotive Engineering degree, or anything along those lines, but that is in the distant future.

As of now, there is a Facebook page that is live: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.facebook.com/Madison-Automotive-Apprentices-1389887317716022/">https://www.facebook.com/Madison-Automo ... 317716022/</a><!-- m -->

Coming soon is the official website: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.madisonauto.org/">http://www.madisonauto.org/</a><!-- m -->

Let me know if you have any questions! I'll be happy to share any information I have, but at the moment, there's not much else to know.