Auto Repair Race Nets College Cash: Students Use Technical Finesse in Competition
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By Darrell Hughes, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 27--One hundred high school students raced Tuesday to repair identically bugged 2007 Ford Fusions, with problems ranging from brake light malfunctions to faulty sensors, in hopes of winning college scholarships.
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The life of a high school science fair winner isn't easy. But the research itself can be earth-shattering.
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iPods and cell phones top the gadget list for penny-pinching students, and few hit campus without a PC.
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Blog: Can Florida's SubjuGator repeat as the winner in the 10th annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition? It'll have to beat out a flotilla of other college teams.
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Rob Chermesino's college-educated friends went into finance and sales. His fiance is a meeting planner. Chermesino picked up a wrench.
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See which gadgets today's college students use the most.
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More four-wheel-drive owners appear interested in leveraging their vehicles' capabilities - and testing their own.
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Stock car racing was built by those trying to beat the system.
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The auto maintenance company has a simple business but a complicated prognosis.
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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Pizza parties, treasure hunts and programming contests are meant to create excitement around a company and impress potential recruits as young as college freshmen.
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Driving a race car takes more than good hand-eye coordination and the stomach for G-forces. It also takes a truckload of high-tech gear.
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Before any law has been passed, carmakers are putting on stability control systems. They like their buyers alive. Rollovers are the safety curse of sport utility vehicles.
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Two cheap and relatively simple car modifications can help you gain a couple miles to the gallon.
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Pick your vehicle&#151;stock car, motorcycle, pickup truck, riding lawn mower&#151;and competitors in the United States race them. So, too, the solar-powered car.
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A company is set up to encourage students to be entrepreneurs when they leave university.
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By Frank, Maggie  Back in the day, a college student who skipped class but cared about what he had missed borrowed a classmate's notes. A few beers or bucks might change hands, and everybody was happy. Not so this fall when N.C.