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Career Types

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Green Careers

Discover some of the many STEM-focused careers dealing with the environment and climate change.

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Career Talk Show

Students will research a career (or career sector) and role-play being a person in that career being interviewed by a talk show host.

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Engineering a Future Career

Students explore the different branches of engineering and discover the similarities and differences between them.

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My STEAM Portfolio Website

Students will create a personal website to demonstrate the STEAM skills and concepts they have learned in class/school.

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Is This For Me? Reflecting On Occupational Fit

Students engage in self-reflection as they consider occupational fit and how various career options align with their personal strengths and preferences.

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Groundwater Sustainability: Protecting our Hidden Treasure

Learn about groundwater and why we should protect it.

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Cybersecurity Career Exploration

Students will explore different possible working environments related to the field of cybersecurity.

Ethical hacker

Careers of the Future

Students will learn about potential careers of the future and create their own job description.

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Coding is For Everyone!

Students will learn the importance of computer programming skills across a variety of career areas and how these skills can make them more employable.

Timothy Burkhart

Query a Career Profile

Students will explore career profiles and relate them to what they are learning in science class.

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Careers in the Great Outdoors

Students explore careers related to outdoors and the land and then design and build a water filter prototype.

Road construction in winter

Heavy Equipment in Winter

Learn how people keep heavy equipment working in the most challenging conditions

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Exploring Career Sectors and Skills

Students will explore STEM career sectors and the skills required for a variety of STEM careers.

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Help Wanted: STEM Career

Students will produce a Help Wanted Ad that lists the skills, personality attributes and job conditions for a specific career/job title. 

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Career Exploration : Volcanologist

Students construct a model of a volcano and explore the career of a volcanologist.