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Career and Technical Education, Features | November 13, 2023 Cankdeska Cikana Community College (CCCC) is among the leading tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) for enrollment in career and technical education (CTE) programs. Since their inception over 50 years ago, tribal colleges and universities have had a strong focus on CTE, offering students a variety of opportunities to develop skillsets that prepare them for the workforce. At CCCC, students receive experience working in the field and can continue at the college for the associate's degree, with the potential to transfer into a bachelor's program via a 2+2 agreement with Mayville State University, a public four-year institution that's part of the larger North Dakota University System. During the ECE internship, students receive hands-on experience working in an early childhood field such as Head Start, Early Head Start, Family and Community Engagement (FACE), home-based daycares, community or private daycares, preschools, kindergartens, or primary education up through third grade. The program focuses on basic carpentry processes and safety on the worksite, and covers solving basic mathematical problems, blueprint reading, and the safe use of hand tools, power tools, and other equipment and materials of the trade.