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WrenchWay and ASE announce strategic partnership

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WrenchWay, National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), and ASE Education Foundation announced a strategic partnership to promote School Assist during a webinar Monday. 

“To have WrenchWay’s brand tagged alongside ASE’s brand in this partnership is very humbling,” said Jay Goninen, WrenchWay co-founder, during the webinar. 

Dave Johnson, ASE president and CEO, said the partnership will benefit the shared goals of both organizations. He added that WrenchWay’s online platform mirrors what ASE is already doing on the ground. 

WrenchWay is an online community dedicated to promoting and improving technician careers, a release for the announcement says. ASE, established in 1972, is a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes high standards of service and repair through the assessment, certification, and credentialing of current and future industry professionals.

“At ASE, we recognize the critical importance of connecting schools with the transportation industry to ensure the next generation of service professionals are well-prepared for the workforce,” Johnson says in the press release.  “Our partnership with WrenchWay, utilizing School Assist, allows us to super-charge those connections previously enabled by our Adopt-A-School program. It provides schools with the tools and resources they need in one centralized platform. This partnership underscores our commitment to solving the technician shortage by bringing industry and education together to create local solutions for a national problem.”

WrenchWay’s School Assist was launched earlier this year as an online tool to help high schools and post-secondary schools with technician programs connect with local shops and dealerships. 

Mark Wilson, WrenchWay co-founder, said after the creation of the platform, the next challenge was getting people to it. 

“We feel strongly for this to really work — for the industry to properly support schools — you have to get everybody going to one place,” Wilson said. “There is a lot of communication going on but you need a hub for this to happen.” 

The ASE Education Foundation will invite more than 2,000 ASE-accredited schools to the platform, according to a presentation displayed during the webinar. The press release notes the platform currently has over 1,100 participating schools and 1,000 shops and dealerships. 

Wilson said ASE certification is not a requirement to use School Assist. He said it will remain free for all schools. 

“We are there to help everybody. It doesn’t matter if you are ASE credited or not,” Johnson said. 

WrenchWay also announced a new lower pricing option for shops, dealers, and others to join School Assist. 

While School Assist is free to schools, administration costs are covered by shop memberships, Wilson said. 

A $750 standalone option for School Assist is now available. Top Shop Membership at $1,800 annually provides shops with a custom “Top Shop” page, unlimited job postings on WrenchWay, access to School Assist, premium posts on Shop Talk, and industry best practices and guides, according to WrenchWay’s website

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Feature photo a screenshot of WrenchWay webinar held Oct. 21. 

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