Case IH recently donated tractors to three technical schools to give students hands-on learning with new equipment. The tractors were donated to Parkland Community College in Champaign, Illinois, North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, South Dakota. Each received one donated tractor. The tractors will be used as training aids for diesel technology programs to benefit students’ education. Each school that received a donated tractor is partnered with a local Case IH dealer and has a program to train students to repair agriculture equipment. The tractor models that were donated, a Puma 170, Optum 270 and Optum 300, have a retail value of more than $500,000 in total. Darrel Woolery, agriculture department supervisor at Lake Area Technical Institute, said the Optum 300 tractor they received will be used to teach across multiple programs, and it will serve as a learning tool both in the classroom and in the field.