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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) Valley City Technology & Engineering Education Students showcased their talents at the North Dakota Capitol.

5 students from Mel Klingenberg’s Engineering Technology Class and Foundations of Technology Class; Brady Flemmer, Wyatt Hatcher, Alan Bear, Mark Anderson and Nathan Gentry showed off their talents with a laser in the Great Hall of the North Dakota Capitol Building, as part of Career and Technical Education.

The students, with the financial help of the North Dakota Career and Technical Education Administrators, laser engraved a pen for each of the state legislators and invited each one to stop by their booth to pick up their rosewood pen.  The students were able to explain the process to make the pen, how they set up the machine and in some instances, made the legislators another pen.

The Valley City High School booth was one of the most popular booths at the capitol that day, competing with nine other high school and college booths. Traffic at the booth was steady all day and the students had very little time to see the other booths on display during the January 30 event.

Career and Technical Education Courses provide opportunities for students to learn the skills for entry to mid-level jobs in business, trades, industry, agriculture, food service, information technology, and health occupations. Approximately 70% of the jobs created in North Dakota are in the areas of Career and Technical Education subjects.  For more information on Career and Technical Education go to www.nd.gov/cte.