TekNoXpo joins high schoolers, college tech

Thursday was no regular school day for Teagan Friesen and Jason Toavas.

Rather than pouring through textbooks in their classroom at Lustre Christian High School in Frazer, the two high school seniors were operating Bobcat Skid Steers in the southwest parking lot behind the Armory Gymnasium at Montana State University-Northern.

A similar activity took place in a neighboring parking lot, where under the supervision of both staff and Northern students, their young guests knocked over orange cones with a backhoe.

Both were part of the equipment rodeo, one of 10 other hands-on activities a...