EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. - Giving students a taste of the real business world is a key to the success of two technical training programs in the Grand Forks area. Divided by the sometimes tempestuous Red River are the communities of Grand Forks, N.D., and East Grand Forks, Minn. Each community boasts exceptional technical training programs, designed to bring young people into the mechanical trades and keep them interested in the career path they have chosen.
The News visited the key people behind both programs in order to find out what makes them so successful.