3M awards tool grant through CREF

Feb. 4, 2015
Through the Collision Repair Education Foundation and the 3M Hire Our Heroes program, four winners have been selected for a tool grant.
Through the Collision Repair Education Foundation and the 3M “Hire Our Heroes” program, four winners have been selected for a tool grant. The recipients, all military veterans, began their collision education at various colleges around the country starting in the summer/fall of 2014. Each winning student had the opportunity to select $2,500 worth of tools to help them during their education and for employment after graduation.

The winners are:

Jerry Rawson (Bridgerland Applied Technology College, Logan, UT)
Glenn Valdez (Kennedy King College, Chicago, IL)
Courtney Washington (Fayetteville Technical Community College, Fayetteville, NC)
Anthony Wrinkler (UTI, Sacramento, CA)

Clark Plucinski, Executive Director of the Collision Repair Education Foundation said, “The Collision Repair Education Foundation is proud to continue to partner with 3M and the Hire Our Heroes program to offer these grant awards. There are an incredible amount of opportunities in the collision industry and thanks to 3M, these winning students will have the tools that will make them successful in their education and beyond. It is an honor to show our support of military veterans through this program.”

“This is our third year of providing this type of support to our military veterans and their family member,” said Dale Ross, 3M U.S. Marketing Operations Manager Automotive Aftermarket Division. “We hope to continue to attract veterans to our industry, and help those that choose this career path get the tools and training they need to be successful.”

Additional scholarship opportunities are currently available for students studying at collision repair schools, including veterans, at the website, www.CollisionEducationFoundation.org under “Students”. For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or 888.722.3787, Ext. 283.

The Collision Repair Education Foundation, founded in 1991, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to securing donations that support philanthropic and collision repair education activities that promote and enhance career opportunities in the industry. For information on how to donate to programs supported by the Education Foundation visit us online at: www.CollisionEducationFoundation.org.

About 3M

3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing. With $31 billion in sales, 3M employs 89,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 70 countries. For more information, visit www.3M.com or follow @3MNews on Twitter.

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