When Elwood Community Schools ordered a new pickup truck for its maintenance department, Leanne Clouser, Elwood resident and employee at the GM Truck Assembly Plant near Ft. Wayne had an idea. She thought it would be a great experience for students in the automotive service and collision repair programs at Hinds Career Center to follow the assembly of the school’s new truck from beginning to end. She approached the plant manager with her idea and then, Glen Nelson, Elwood Superintendent. Less than three weeks later, Leanne’s husband, Joe, a bus driver for Elwood schools, volunteering his time, drove the students to the assembly plant near Ft. Wayne to spend nearly four hours following the assembly lines, witnessing nearly three thousand parts come together into the finished truck.