Mentor Interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRH66kE-jrM&feature=youtube_gdata

Project Proposal

Chad Brickey

LINK Project Proposal

For my internship, I am working at an automotive repair shop called Village Auto Care. At Village Auto Care, they specialize in Subaru, Toyota, Lexus, Acura, and Honda.

 My mentor is a man named Bob Davoust. Bob owns the auto shop that I will be working at. My mentor can offer me a lot; I would like to work in an automotive profession later in life and I feel that this will be great experience and Bob has the knowledge to teach me what I need to know.

As a long term career, I want to open my own auto shop that specializes in classic muscle cars probably between the 60’s through the 80’s. This internship will allow me to get some experience in the field that I want to make a career out of and will let me see if that is really what I want to do later in life.

For my project I have decided to rebuild an old engine. The purpose in rebuilding the engine would be to expand my knowledge in the automotive field. The engine is a huge part of a car and I feel that it is the most important to learn about. Doing hands on work is the best way to learn (for me that is). The auto shop that I am working at should have all of the tools that are necessary to rebuild the engine.

 I have a little bit of background knowledge with cars but not a ton. I’ve worked on a couple of different cars and I feel that that has given me a fairly good base and understanding of what I need to get started. Also I have looked at a couple things here and there on the internet about what it takes to rebuild an engine.

Supplies: The basic hand tools, an engine stand, cylinder hone, ridge reamer, piston pin compressor, piston pin press, micrometers and torque wrenches; possibly a valve grinding machine and valve lapper.

I cannot layout specific times or dates because I’m not positive as to how long the process and all the steps are going to take.

There are too many things that could go wrong with this project for me to list them all and for almost every problem there are a number of ways to fix it. I could not have a part, I could not have the right tool, something could not fit right, I could not know how to do something, a part could break, etc.

http://autorepair.about.com/library/a/1d/bl492e.htm

Resume

Chad T. Brickey
www.students.animashighschool.com/~cbrickey1/ Objective
To obtain an internship with an automotive repair shop.
Experience
Summer 2010 & 2011		South West Ice	Durango, CO
Stacking and Delivering Ice §  Stack ice on palettes §  Deliver ice to businesses in the Four Corners §  Use bagger to bag ice
Education
2009-Present	Animas High School		Durango, CO
Junior 2011-Present §  Finished first semester with a GPA of 3.5 §  Go to Fort Lewis every other Friday for Chemistry Labs §  Taking Spanish 3 Sophomore 2010-2011 §  Accepted the invitation to attend and showcase project work at the “Sparkle” Animas High School fundraising event §  Finished with a GPA of 3.72 §  Built a tape sculpture for a Biology project   Freshman 2009-2010 §  Produced a Digital Portfolio of work §  Created School ID §  Built a ukulele for a sound project
Skills
§  Some mechanical background §  Quick learner §  Hands on §  Work well under high pressure §  Problem solving

Sports

2005-Present                                        Ice Hockey                                            Durango, CO

2007-2008                                            Lacrosse                                                Durango, CO

1998-2005                                            Roller Hockey                                      Castle Rock, CO

2001-2002                                            Football                                                 Castle Rock, CO

References

Craig Arnwine

South West Ice, Co-Owner, Durango, CO

(970) xxx-xxxx

Dell Truax

Hockey Coach, Durango, CO

(970) xxx-xxxx

Chadsakic@thebrickeys.com

LINK Description

As a student at Animas High School, I will be partaking in a three week internship starting in March. For my internship I will be working at an automotive repair shop called Village Auto Care in Durango, Colorado.