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Vocational education isn’t what it used to be. For one thing, say the words “vo-tech” to someone who works or advocates in the field and you will get some serious stink eye. It’s CTE — career and technical education, thank you very much. But there are a lot of other differences. Sure, carpenters are still advised to measure twice and cut once, but all of the various job skills have changed a lot as “technical” has developed more technology. New tools and updated methods are not ju...

Mary Ann Thomas | Tribune-Review Dustin Traill, tech education teacher at Apollo-Ridge High School, shows a wood design of the Apollo-Ridge logo made by students with a computerized router in the high school wood shop.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. It’s not your father’s wood shop. A CNC router is programmed to buzz through wood with any design created on a computer for the Industrial Math class at A...