Tosta said he felt there was a need for these specific tools.

“It’s going to allow students to be able to use these tools while they’re working on many other projects,” he said. “Before we had to use shared tools. This allows students to bring one of these carts over, bring a set of tools over and work on their own project.”

“It allows more stuff to get done, in a timelier fashion,” he said.

Local businesses and individuals were quick to respond to a Facebook post to donate the requested tools and equipment.

“He’s wonderful making friends, making contacts,” said Peter Palumbo, owner of Palumbo’s Automotive in Guilford. “He’s a networker and I love that about him.”

Tosta’s major at RIT will be mechanical engineering, but working on cars has always been a passion of his.

“I have a few old classic cars at home that I’ve been restoring, one of them I’m doing for my mom because of all she’s done for me,” he said, referring to his mother’s 1964 Volvo.

Standing beside him, his mother, Donna Tosta, said she and her husband, Scott, are very proud of their son.

“He’s always been a great kid, as far as looking out for the community needs,” she said.

“He went through (Boy) Scouts here in town, made his Eagle (Scout) at 15,” Donna Tosta said. “He did the Bittner (Park) posts and signs for the disc golf course. He always has had that giving community spirit.”

Tosta and his mom stood in the parking lot of Palumbo’s Automotive where Palumbo worked alongside his employee, Richie Roonie and Jim Betulia, owner of Guilford Texaco, putting together an engine hoist, to lift an engine out of the under hood of a car.

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