The Thirteenth Annual Tools Scholarship Award Dinner was held Thursday, May 11th at Ralph Stump;e's Man Cave in Florence. Since 2011 Shoals Mustangs has awarded scholarships to support graduating high school students in the Shoals area that have shown outstanding performance during their vocational training and are interested in pursuing careers in the automotive and/or mechanical fields.
In the last twelve years, the club worked with the automotive technology section of various area schools. This year's schools were Muscle Shoals Career Academy, Allen Thornton Career Technical Center, Franklin County Career Technical Center, Russellville Career & Technical Education and Wayne County Technology Center. The club was unable to hold the event in 2020 due COVID-19.
Students are given tool kits to help get them on their way. Presentation of these scholarships takes place at our monthly meeting in May. Extreme Auto Design in Muscle Shoals helps sponsor this project.
This year's recipients were: from Allen Thornton - Evans Gunter; from Muscle Shoals - Owen Goff and Hunter Davis; from Russellville - Gary Pounders and John Sizemore; from Franklin County - Diony Macedo and Jose Guzman; from Wayne County - Tocoma Odel.