CLEARFIELD -With the last day of school before graduation coming to an end representatives of the Clearfield County Career and Technology Center drew the name of a student as part of a car giveaway.
Zack Selfridge, a Clearfield Area High School student, was the winner of the drawing.
Selfridge was one of 189 students entered into the drawing to win the 2003 Oldsmobile Alero. While nearly 200 students were entered there were those who were entered multiple times.
To be eligible you had to sell 10 buckets of cookie dough as a fund raiser for one entry. For every additional 10 buckets a student got another entry. Perfect attendance and honor roll were other ways students could get extra entries into the ruling.
Selfridge had earned extra chances through several of these means including honor roll and perfect attendance. He had to be called at home to come in to see the car after the school realized his first day missing class was the day of the drawing.
“I’m astonished. It’s a great car,” said Selfridge.
The drawing was part of an attempt to recruit more students into SkillsUSA. According to Darlene Smolk, SkillsUSA representative and teacher at CCCTC, this wasn’t the first time a car has been given away to a student, only that the CCCTC hasn’t done so in years, and she was unable to recall the exact year it was last done.
Zack Selfridge stands next to his new car. (Steven McDole)
