Two Clarke Community High School students captured fifth-place in the 23rd annual Des Moines Area Community College(DMACC)/Iowa Automobile Dealers Association (IADA) Automotive Skills Contest recently held at the DMACC Ankeny Campus.
Clarke Community students Abraham Fulton and Ty Marker were the skills competition fifth-place finishers. Both Fulton and Marker received numerous tools and supplies donated by the Iowa Automobile Dealers Association and scholarships provided by the DMACC Foundation. Each member from the other seven teams also received tools and supplies from the association for their participation in this competition. In total, nearly $25,000 worth of tools and equipment was awarded to the contestants.
Benjamin Linscheid and Benjamin Rogers from the DMACC Ankeny Career Academy took first-place while teams from Des Moines Central Campus took second place and LeMars High School capturing third place. Other schools competing were the DMACC Warren County Career Academy, Clarke Community High School, Mount Pleasant Hill School, the DMACC Newton Career Academy and Creston High School.
Eight two-member teams of Iowa high school automotive students qualified for the hands-on portion of the Automotive Skills Contest by having the highest average scores on a written test held in October on the DMACC Ankeny Campus. Nearly 300 students representing 18 Iowa high schools competed in the written portion of the contest.
The DMACC Foundation also provided $1,000 scholarships to each of the first-place finishers, $600 scholarships to each of the second-place winners, $400 scholarships to each of the third-place winners and $250 scholarships to the fourth-place finishers.