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Taeler Coverdale is a graduate of Salem County Vocational Technical School and attends the Universal Technical Institute where she continues her education in collision repair. Taeler is the 2023 TechForce Foundation’s Grand Prize Winner of the Future Techs Rock Awards. TechForce has honored the most engaged, promising, and passionate students enrolled in transportation technician educational programs across the country. While she was attending SCVT her focus was on mechanics, and it was a collision course that changed her focus and also where she discovered her passion for painting. After graduating from UTI Taeler plans on moving back to New Jersey to start her own business in custom motorcycles.
SHOW SPONSORS
American Collectors Insurance • Linkage Magazine • Techforce Foundation • RPM Foundation
INSPIRATION
Taeler’s parents and grandparent have been very supportive throughout her life and of her career choice. Mike Nickerson, her high school teacher, has been an important mentor as well.
CHALLENGES
When working on her Fox Body Mustang, Taeler went through a challenging learning curve. Also, finding a job as a student in an actual restoration shop is difficult.
SPECIAL VEHICLES
A 1995 OBS ‘Old Body Style’ Ford she named “Slimer.”
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
How To Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
WORDS OF INSPIRATION
“I would rather be hated for what I am than loved for who I am not.” – Kurt Cobain
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