Gage Laws of Perry has graduated from the General Motors Automotive Service Education Program (ASEP) at DMACC in Ankeny, the community college announced Wednesday.
Laws, a 2020 graduate of Perry High School, was also hired by his sponsoring dealership, Shottenkirk Chevrolet of Waukee.
DMACC established a partnership with General Motors to provide both entry-level training and advanced technology training for GM dealership technicians. Altogether, 439 students have graduated from the 36 ASEP classes at DMACC since the program’s inception.
Automotive students spend about half of their program time at the community college, learning the latest automotive technology on current production GM vehicles, and half of their time applying what they’ve learned at their sponsoring GM dealership, according to DMACC Automotive Technology/ASEP Program Chair Jerry Burns.
At the end of the five-semester program, a student earns an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Automotive Technology.
More people from Perry graduated last night from DMACC. Are they going to list the names of the people that articles weren’t written about?
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