TMCP #405: How to Pursue an Automotive Education with Wyotech; Guests: Jim Mathis and Troy Chaney
The MuscleCar Place
Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This weeks show is with WyoTech President and CEO Jim Mathis along with the VP of Admissions Troy Chaney. Founded in Laramie in 1966, WyoTech provides concentrated training programs such as Automotive Technology, Collision Refinishing Technology, Diesel Technology, Interior, Restoration and performance, and other areas as well. Jim is a graduate of WyoTech and previously held the office of President up until 2002. Wyotech has changed ownership over the years, but Jim was able to purchase the school just a few years ago and returned back into family owned hands. He intends to keep it that way. For those that have ever considered attending an automotive trade program this will be a MUST LISTEN TO interview.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 405. This week, a show I am really proud to bring you, |
| 0:07.3 | and this may spark you to make an educational decision for yourself, a child, a friend, you name it. |
| 0:13.6 | Our guests are Jim Mathis and Troy Cheney from WyoTech. WioTech is the educational institution |
| 0:19.5 | you've heard of for years that is an automotive |
| 0:22.1 | specialty trade school for auto technicians, diesel technicians, paint and body, and more. |
| 0:27.5 | And it's an intense eight hour a day, nine month educational program to teach students the skills |
| 0:32.9 | they will need in the real world. We're talking about getting real jobs. We recover it all. The programs, |
| 0:39.3 | the requirements to attend, the costs, and yes, the job prospects. But the whole industry, |
| 0:44.4 | I don't care if it's close to me finishing automotive diesel. The job opportunities are |
| 0:49.2 | unbelievable out there. We have employers literally on campus two or three times a week, and then we'll |
| 0:55.4 | get 15 to 20 phone calls a day from other employers seeking our graduates. |
| 1:01.9 | This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:08.9 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love |
| 1:12.9 | American muscle cars. Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is |
| 1:19.6 | the place for you. Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the |
| 1:27.3 | Muscle Car Place podcast. Well, hey, school is |
| 1:29.9 | definitely back in session. You can feel it now, right? And it's literally in session today. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm very excited to have our guests from WioTech on to talk about, well, the full story of |
| 1:40.5 | wild tech, the rise, the growth. There was a little declined in there somewhere, I think, |
| 1:45.0 | and Rise again from Wild Tech. They've really gone back to the basics, gone back to the mission |
| 1:49.8 | statement. I think you're going to smile as you listen to it, frankly, especially when you hear |
| 1:54.8 | Jim speak as to why he has returned from being a student and professor to now the president's CEO. |
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