CTE courses and programs is important to have and be rigorous, competitive, motivating, engaging, relevant and authentic but it also should have teamwork, cooperation, sometimes be exciting. Teahcers have to ask themselves how will it make the student's mind work and will they be able to connect this lesson. They also have to get creative and make sure that their assignments are intriguing for the students, but also in the CTE path. One good example would to assign a group project for kids to create a robot that uses AI to follow a path. It is engaging with a broad amount of things to do for them the kids to break up responsibility very well.