This piece originally aired June 19, 2015. Patrice Banks knows what she's doing under the hood. She shares that knowledge -- for free -- at monthly clinics geared toward women. "There are certain ...
On a scorching July afternoon, a first-time customer wanders around the front of an auto repair shop, peering in to find the entrance. A mechanic steps away from an oil change, wipes the sweat off her ...
Patrice Banks is now a mechanic, and the owner of a successful auto clinic, but there was a time when she avoided taking her own car in for routine maintenance. "I was afraid I was going to be taken ...
Patrice Banks has singlehandedly popularized the idea that women should, without a doubt, have power in the auto mechanics industry. Banks officially opened the Girls Auto Clinic in November 2016 to ...
BRIDGEWATER — Three female students in Alan Creveling’s Automotive Technology Program at Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School have taken the less-traveled educational path for women in ...
In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Patrice Banks used to get uncomfortable taking her car to the mechanic. But following a successful career as an engineer, she decided to revolutionize the ...
Leann Rafferty has dreams of her artwork decorating the bodies of hot cars and vans, but realizes she first has to learn more about repairing and finishing the bodies of motor vehicles. Now the 2016 ...
Decades ago, singer Cyndi Lauper opined that girls just wanna have fun. But in Milwaukie, Ore., a group of female high school students aspire to something more serious: establishing careers in ...
Patrice Banks is now a mechanic, and the owner of a successful auto clinic, but there was a time when she avoided taking her own car in for routine maintenance. "I was afraid I was going to be taken ...
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