The Young Car Mechanic contest, organized by Inter Cars is currently running. Its grand finale, with representatives of 3 countries, shall be held in the middle of May.
Young Car Mechanic is a contest for pupils of 17 post-secondary schools, taking part in Young HR programme organized by Inter Cars. Its main purpose is to find new talents in the area of automotive mechanics. The Company also wants to popularize the job of a mechanic among young people, using for this purpose a work simulator, which is a tool not only for learning, but also to explore and develop passion.
1,100 pupils applied to the competition. The first stage, test matches, started on February 1st. During this part, the participants, using purpose-made game “Car Mechanic Simulator”, completed the tasks which were to perform a virtual repair on vehicles. On every repair they also had to solve a quiz, which required from them thorough automotive industry knowledge. After answering the questions they could move to a consecutive repair order. Next, on April 6th, the second stage of competition started. Contestants who solved the biggest number of quiz questions correctly were promoted to the second round. Tasks in this stage were much alike those in the first one. Fundamental difference was the version of the game they were playing. This time it was a special edition of “Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 - Mercedes-Benz”. The orders which were assigned to contestants did not suggest what was to be repaired - participants had to find out themselves what was damaged and replace it.
10 best competitors shall be invited to take part in the finale of the contest, which shall be held on April 20th in Inter Cars Training Centre. This time all the tasks will have to be done in real life. Especially for them there are some competitions, during which they will have to perform repairs of vehicles, and also their sub-assemblies. Moreover they will have to prove their practical knowledge regarding technical subjects and diagnostics. This way 3 best competitors shall be found and promoted to the international finale of Young Car Mechanic. This shall be held on May 15th and 16th. Besides students from Poland, there will also be representatives of Lithuania and Latvia.
The main partner of the contest is PlayWay Company. Strategic partners are Bosch, Castrol and Schaeffler Group. Among supporting partners there are Denso, Osram, SKF, Mahle, Contitech, NTN and SNR.
source: autoexpert.pl
11.04.2017