Fish Market Survey
Senior biology students use a DNA barcoding kit to test local grocery store fish samples, and discover if the fish they bought is mislabeled and part of food fraud!
Travel4Climate
During this project, students develop their critical thinking and problem-solving skills while exploring positive changes and emerging technologies together.
Summer Symposium Series: Climate Career Resources
A career focused on climate change and sustainability would let you help people by working to help solve the biggest problems of our time.
Summer Symposium Series: Engineering Career Resources
A career in engineering would let you help people through designing and implementing the things they use in their daily lives.
Summer Symposium Series: Health Sciences Career Resources
A career in the health sciences would let you help people directly in a very 'hands-on' way!
A Virtual Career Fair
Students will learn about various careers, and career pathways, through their review of various career profiles.
Students will continue to develop their understanding of the importance of STEM courses/programs for future career pathways.
Exploring Occupational Clusters
Students will recognize the variety of careers available in each occupational cluster.
Students will recognize that many of these careers require or benefit from a background in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
Students will make personal connections between their interests and current skills to the people profiled.
Learning About Educational Pathways
Students will be aware of and understand the importance of, various learning pathways that lead to successful life and work experiences.
Students will become aware of the variety of STEM careers available in each of these different learning pathways.
Exploring Career Types
Students will recognize that there are many different ways to earn a living and that a ‘career’ does not necessarily have to be a 9 to 5 arrangement.
Students will recognize that different career types and job arrangements have their own positive and negative aspects.
Making Informed Career Choices
Students will learn that possessing the right kind of information is important for making an informed career decision as well as for future career success and stability.
Creating Your Career Documentary
Students will engage in a ‘forward thinking’ exercise. This exercise addresses the following: what they want from life, the skills and abilities they have now that are useful for future career decisions, the skills and abilities they will need to develop, and how they are going to connect who they are with who they want to be and what they want to do.
Factors Affecting Career Choice
Students explore and discuss factors they should consider when they are planning a career path.
Exploring Motivational Factors
Students will explore motivational factors that influence a person’s career on a daily basis.
Students will recognize motivational factors that are similar to their own.
Student will identify the factors that motivate or are important to them as they explore or plan for future career opportunities.
What’s My Lifestyle?
Students will realize that high salaries are not always equated with a great lifestyle.