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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Seidner’s Collision Centers is again supporting local career and technical schools and colleges by designating part of their I-CAR Education Foundation donation towards a local Instructor Qualification Workshop (IQW) for the school instructors.
Six school instructors in the Los Angeles area were able to attend the IQW at no charge. Seidner’s Collision Centers covered the registration cost for each attendee and also hosted the two-day event in their training facility.
The instructors who attended the event had a positive experience. “I enjoyed the class,” says Rudy Ortega from Cerritos College. “Presentation techniques and instructor/student perceptions were something that I was aware of, but had never had a class that zeroed in on them like this one. I took away a bunch of information that I will be using when my class meets.”
Gene Lopez, Seidner’s Collision Centers director of development, was pleased with the outcome. “I am very excited to see our local schools, both secondary and post-secondary, prepare students for the collision industry,” says Lopez. “By attending this event, the instructors will have the tools to better educate their students and the school can now join the Industry Training Alliance to award I-CAR points.”
“The I-CAR Education Foundation is pleased to partner with Steve Seidner and Gene Lopez at Seidner’s Collision Centers in helping collision repair instructors attend Instructor Qualification Workshops,” said Scott Kruger, I-CAR Education Foundation Executive Director. “It shows an investment in the collision industry that will benefit the next generation of collision technicians in Southern California.”
Seidner’s Collision Centers is a 45-year-old family-owned business with 11 locations in the San Gabriel Valley and Inland Empire communities of Southern California. Seidner’s employs 185 technicians, estimators and administrative staff, and offers scholarships towards some advanced training on current repair techniques provided by I-CAR.
