School project a smash; AHS students prepare teacher’s car for demolition derby
Published 8:21 am Tuesday, February 6, 2018
- Austin High School teacher Craig Knippel, at right, guides his students Friday in applying pink vinyl wrap to Southgate Elementary teacher Ryan Timm’s demolition derby car. Pictured from left are students Thomas Kroymann, Hector Morales Castaneda and Moo Taw. Christopher Baldus/chris.baldus@austindailyherald.com
Ryan Timm may just have the most pink car in this weekend’s Smashing Cancer Demolition Derby. He certainly should have the car with the most child signatures.
Austin High School students have been busy taking apart, reinforcing and decorating the Ford Contour that Timm intends to drive in destructive benefit for the Paint the Town Pink campaign against cancer.
A look at some of the braces and other graphic work students have done.
Walking around the car Friday as students used a heat gun to apply pink vinyl to the passenger’s side rear quarter-panel, Austin High School teacher Craig Knippel points out how students stripped the car of non-essentials — and windows — and put in braces here and there.
“And that’s the fire blanket,” he said as he pointed to a brown pile of fabric on top of the gas tank.
The high schoolers were to bring the car’s trunk lid to Timm’s Southgate Elementary School classroom over the noon hour to have his fourth-grade students sign in.
The Smashing Cancer Demolition Derby, which begins at 1 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 11, at the Mower County Fairgrounds Grandstand, will be officiated by Masters of Disaster. There will be a silent auction as well and a heated concessions area.
Austin High School students work on Southgate Elementary teacher Ryan Timm’s demolition derby car on Friday. The trunk is decorated with Southgate gators. Southgate students will get to sign the trunk today. Christopher Baldus/chris.baldus@austindailyherald.com
Gate admission is $10 for everyone over the age of 12. Children 5 to 12 years old pay $5, and younger than 5 get in free.
The derby will not be the lone event at the fairgrounds this Sunday. The Mower County Fair Board is expanding its Paint the Town Pink event offerings with its Paint the Town Pink Master Golf Challenge will from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday.
To enter a four-person team costs $20. It’s $10 for a two-person team. Children 15 years old and younger pay $4 To pre-register, contact Renee Wangen, a Fair Board director, at 507-438-1021.
The challenge will be played on a 9-hole golf course most likely dug out of the snow at the fairgrounds.
