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Training Method <br />The Newgate Vocational Auto <br />Body Program provides students <br />with the opportunity for hands <br />on work experience and training <br />in a setting similar to a profit <br />making shop but with the advan- <br />tage of special schedules and <br />work supervisors trained to <br />assist the participants to develop <br />the vocational skills, work habits <br />and attitudes necessary to <br />become a successfully employed <br />adult. <br />Students in the auto body pro- <br />gram team by working with <br />experienced trainees in a variety <br />of renovation projects from <br />repairing collision damage to <br />van conversion to classic car <br />restoration. Students are trained <br />in all phases of the business <br />including body repair, straighten- <br />ing, spotting in, repainting, <br />welding and an introduction to <br />estimating. <br />3 <br />Pay for <br />Production <br />Students are initially provided <br />with a basic stipend to cover <br />lunch and transportation costs. <br />As students gain in skill and <br />knowledge, they are assigned <br />individual projects and become <br />eligible to participate in the <br />student income contract. <br />Students working under the <br />income contract are paid a pre- <br />determined amount of money <br />for each vehicle completed. The <br />vehicle contract amount is deter- <br />mined by the vocational in- <br />structor according to the amount <br />and complexity of the work. The <br />amount to be eamed depends <br />upon both speed and quality of <br />work, thereby providing a con- <br />tinuous incentive for improve- <br />ment. <br />