by Amanda Peterson | Mar 11, 2026 | Blog, Spotlight Stories
Aidan Pelton of Watford City, ND, has two high school work experiences to thank for helping him fine-tune his career interests to tax accounting and choose a North Dakota university. “I originally wanted to go out of state for school and work,” says the 2025 Watford...
by Amanda Peterson | Jan 13, 2026 | Blog, Spotlight Stories
After her first year of college for a degree in psychology, Alaina Vein of Fargo, ND, realized it wasn’t the right career path for her. The 2023 Fargo North High School graduate bravely stepped away, took a gap year, and began exploring other options. She wanted to...
by Amanda Peterson | Dec 1, 2025 | Blog, Spotlight Stories
Brody Foster is putting his business studies to work this semester. The Detroit Lakes High School (DLHS) senior is taking full advantage of his school’s work-based learning (WBL) program to prepare himself for college and a career. He’s interning at two different...
by Amanda Peterson | Oct 2, 2025 | Blog, Spotlight Stories
The recent opening of two large career and technical education (CTE) centers in eastern North Dakota is expanding opportunities for high school students to experience more hands-on and career-specific classes, connect with regional employers, explore future career...
by Amanda Peterson | Sep 23, 2025 | Blog, Spotlight Stories
Colton Brown, a 2023 Kindred (ND) High School graduate, has always loved welding. From helping his dad with hobby welding on race cars to working as a picker in a welding shop and taking a high school class, he carried an excitement and drive to learn more and become...
by Amanda Peterson | Jul 9, 2025 | Blog, Spotlight Stories
Two recent Grand Forks, ND, high school graduates are headed directly into a nursing apprenticeship program this fall and will be licensed practical nurses (LPNs) by the following spring. Thanks to college credit coursework while still in high school, mentorship from...
