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SOUTHWEST MIAMI SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS
PLACE IN AUTOMOTIVE COMPETITION

Contact: Jeff Ronci
305-995-1126

June 2, 2000


Two Southwest Miami Senior High School automotive-technology students placed second in the Ford AAA Automotive Hands-on Repair Skills Contest last month at Ocala's Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing.

Twelfth-graders Raymond Reyes and Adrian Sixto won scholarships of $17,500 each and prizes.

Contestants were required to diagnose and repair a 2000 Ford Taurus. The Southwest team was coached by teachers Tracy Hoppe and Nestor Yero and sponsored by Coral Gables Lincoln Mercury. Southwest alumnus Jorge Sanchez, a Ford Master Tech and former first-place winner of the contest, mentored the students.

For more information, contact Southwest's automotive-technologies program at 305-274-0181, extension 265.

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