Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.nowadays we're traveling back to Watertown,South Dakota, to check in with our friends at Lake Area Technical Institute, or one of the five featured schools we're profiling in our "Community College Challenge," whichoffers a unique look at community colleges across the United States.
The fifth largest city in South Dakota, Watertown boasts a population just shy of 22000. You'll find Lake Area Tech nestled, and appropriately so,among a few lakes and the Big Sioux River to the west of Interstate 29 in the Northeastern fraction of the state.
Here, Alec Lee, and a student at Lake Area Tech,and his instructor Corey Mushitz, discuss a unique partnership the college has with Caterpillar dealerships. The program with the construction machinery and equipment company is called ThinkBIG, and it's preparing students for tall-skilled jobs in South Dakota. to memorize more about Lake Area Technical Institute and to see how community colleges in your state stack up,check out our interactive map and website below. Click to Enlarge
Map from The Takeaway's Community College Challenge. Click on the map to interact with the data.
(Tyler Adams for The Takeaway)
Source: wnyc.org