Automotive painter and auto body technician (and writer and TV host) Kevin Tetz offers his top 10 lessons gleaned from decades of working in the field.

Auto body instructor Jeff Goddard says adapting to their hybrid-learning schedule has been a challenge.

Take auto-body class, for instance. As one of the many vocational courses at the school, the class, led by Don Twomey, teaches high-school students how to polish and restore cars. Mr. Twomey, who owns ...

In addition to the auto body class, the camp offers four-day cla-sses in robots, small engines, jewelry making, baking, making an iMovie, desktop publishing, drumming, designing T-shirts and da-ncing.

Thompson, who completed the auto technology program at Simeon, said he completed additional auto body repair training on his own before going to Moraine Valley College.