Previous Recipients

Cumulative Scholarships and Grants from 2005 to Present Recognized by State:

Featured: Washtenaw Community College Auto Technology Program

Jesus is one of this year’s Collectors Foundation scholarship recipients in the Washtenaw Community College Auto Technology Program. In this photo, he poses with the car he helped fabricate, a Ford GTR that won several awards.  Jesus attends school full time, lives at home and commutes 90 miles one way from Flint, MI to Washtenaw Community College, which makes paying for his education even more of a challenge. Despite the distance from school, Jesus has never missed a class and carries a 3.8 GPA. Jesus recently placed first in Collision Repair in the SkillsUSA state competition for Michigan. To prepare for the competition, he was diligent in his training, putting in countless hours both this year and last year. One of his instructors commented that, “Jesus never complains about the time or the drive to practice, in fact he pushes his instructors sometimes. Collision repair is truly his passion and it shows in every repair or competition he undertakes. Jesus has great character and pride for a young student.” 

Alabama

  • DeKalb County Technology Center - $6,000 grant for the Auto Mechanics and Collision Repair program to restore a school owned 1972 VW Fastback

Arizona

  • Phoenix Art Museum - $5,000 - “Curves of Steel” Exhibit

Arkansas

  • Pulaski Technical College - $5,000 – Restoration Library Collection

California

  • Carson High School Auto Shop - $16,800 - grant for funding a part-time, professional expert position in the high school’s automotive shop classes
  • Petersen Automotive Museum - $60,000 – “Free School Bus” program bringing Title I students from LA County to the Museum with developed curriculum meeting State standards in art, history, and science.
  • Yuba Country Career Preparatory School - $13,038 – equipment for the automotive academy
  • Art Center College of Design - $107,500 – scholarships in transportation design department
  • California Automobile Museum (formerly the Towe Auto Museum) - $30,000 challenge grant for education program development

Colorado

  • The Phoenix Garage - $20,000 challenge grant for initiation and implementation of at-risk youth program focused on building hot rods powered by alternative fuels

Connecticut

  • Klingberg Family Center - $7,500 – automotive restoration program for at-risk youth in residential treatment

Florida

  • Safe Harbor Boys Home - $10,000 – gas and diesel engine restoration program for at-risk youth in residential treatment

Indiana

  • Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum - $23,740 – for educational programming and internships
  • Indiana State University Motorsports Camp - $5,000 – camper scholarships
  • Indiana State University Motorsports Program - $9,122 - STEM summer camp at Indiana State Museum
  • Studebaker National Museum - $28,320 – grants for a total of 6 summer internships within the Museum’s Archives and Research Department
  • The Early Ford V-8 Foundation - $4,800 - intern at the Early Ford V-8 Museum for the summer of 2012

 

Iowa

  • Independence High School - $5,000 - equipment grant for auto tech program
  • Iowa Central Community College - $45,000 equipment grant for restoration start up program

Kansas

  • McPherson College - $457,500 - scholarships and facility and equipment upgrades

Maine

  • The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design - $40,000 - scholarships

Massachusetts

  • Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology - $10,000 for scholarships
  • Larz Anderson Museum - $3,000 – lecture series audience development grant
  • Montachusetts Regional Vocational Tech School - $17,157 – restoration shop specialty equipment and tools

 

Michigan

  • Abba’s House - $27,500 – to support restoration shop development and equipment for at-risk youth in residential treatment
  • Alfred P. Sloan Museum - $49,448 – restoration shop development and internship program
  • Calhoun Area Tech Center - $5,000 – auto tech program equipment grant
  • GASC Technology Center - $5,000 for apprenticeship program with Sloan Museum
  • College for Creative Studies - $100,000 – scholarships within the transportation design major
  • Gilmore Car Museum - $45,000 – education program development and “Gilmore Garage Works”
  • Great Lakes Boat Building School - $20,000 – scholarships
  • Inland Seas Education Association - $8,800 – grants for junior high youth Pram boatbuilding and sailing program        
  • Kettering University - $10,000 – scholarships for automotive technology engineering majors
  • Maple Valley School - $1,230 – grant to purchase equipment and supplies for vocational program.
  • Maritime Heritage Alliance - $50,000 challenge grant for mentorship program in wooden boat restoration for high school youth
  • Michigan Make-a-Wish (Justin’s Wish) - $5,000 toward pick up truck restoration performed by students in Washtenaw Community College’s “Custom Cars and Concepts Program”
  • Mott Community College - $2,500 – restoration major planning grant
  • MotorCities National Heritage Area - $15,000 – curriculum development
  • Regional Career Tech Center - $5,000 – equipment grant for auto tech program
  • The Henry Ford - $15,000 – summer day camp for 8th grade students building a Model T and learning about great inventors
  • Washtenaw Community College - $100,000 – scholarships within the school’s “Custom Cars and Concepts Program”

Minnesota

  • Minnesota Lakes Maritime Center - $15,000 challenge grant for education program development

Montana

  • Montana Automotive Technologies - $68,0000 – mentorship program by passionate car guys working with at-risk and other youth in Missoula

National Clubs

  • AACA Library and Research Center - $100,000 – challenge grant for online library project
  • Chris-Craft Antique Boat Club - $17,500 challenge grant for library scanning project
  • CCCA - $30,000 – challenge grant for part-time librarian
  • Horseless Carriage Foundation - $10,000 – challenge grant toward archive scanning project

New Hampshire

  • New Hampshire Boat Museum - $2,440 grant for four scholarships to the Museum’s Youth Boat Building School.  The scholarships provide financial aid for deserving local girls and boys who would otherwise be unable to afford participation in this hands-on learning opportunity.

New York

  • Edward J. Milliken Technical Center - $10,000 - grant to begin an after school for the auto tech students to build a T Bucket
  • Saratoga Automobile Museum - $42,550 in grants for educational programming
  • American Truck Historic Society, Long Island Chapter - $2,500 truck history and safety display for children and youth
  • DCMO BOCES - $3,250 – Model T parts for regional vocational school restoration project
  • International Motor Racing Museum - $5,000 – oral history project

North Carolina

  • American Youth Motorsports Team - $1,500 to support race car drivers in their efforts to encourage young cancer patients
  • The Mountain Alliance - $5,000 - grant to support a new project pairing at-risk high school youth from the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina with adult mentors to restore, rebuild and sail two wooden boats

Ohio

  • Crawford Auto/Aviation Museum - $22,500 – Youth Initiative Program grant
  • Glenmoor Gathering - $3,220 – summer internship
  • National Packard Museum - $4,800 - summer internship

Ontario, Canada

  • Grace & Speed Museum - $2,000 – education grant to extend maritime education to children in the Muscoka community

Oregon

  • Northwest Vintage Car and Motorcycle Museum - $13,000 – supporting annual All High School Car Show and a Model T Build Program for high school youth

Pennsylvania

  • America On Wheels Museum - $29,600 – grant for summer internship and to create a hands-on restoration shop for youth within the museum
  • Berks Career Technical School - $40,000 – automotive restoration initiative within auto tech program
  • Pennsylvania College of Technology - $58,840 - grant to purchase start-up equipment and faculty training for a new automotive restoration technology degree program at the college

Quebec, Canada

  • University Lavel - $2,000 sponsorship grant for the school’s Alerion Superemilage Project

Rhode Island

  • Herreshoff Marine Museum -  $20,000 challenge grant for after school youth mentoring program in wooden boat restoration and care

Texas

  • Eastfield College - $10,000 challenge grant toward equipment in the school’s new Street Rod and Custom Car certification program.
  • Mabank High School - $7,500 for equipment in their restoration technology program.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Vancouver Community College Foundation - $10,000 matching grant to support the school’s NASKARZ program for youth in trouble with the law.  The program restores and builds custom cars.

Washington

  • Clover Park Technical College - $46,000 scholarships and equipment in automotive restoration technology
  • Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum - $10,000 JBoat safety gear and motors for youth program
  • LeMay Museum - $22,400 – educational seminars and internships
  • Northwest Museum of History and Culture - $1,000 toward historical exhibit of automobiles in the Northwest
  • Port Townsend Aero Museum$10,000 for two internships
  • Northwest School of Wooden Boat Building - $30,000 – scholarships
  • The Center for Wooden Boats - $29,000 – internships

Wisconsin

  • Discovery World and Milwaukee Public School - $17,500 grants awarded for partnership of school and museum for students to work with staff to refurbish and upgrade Discovery World’s Great Lake Schooner - S/V Denis Sullivan

 

Wyoming

  • WyOTech - $31,000 – scholarships