Pathways to Success: Career Exploration

Module 1: Getting Started: Imagine Your Future!
In this module, students will explore the career pathways of someone they find interesting or admirable. They will begin to create a vision of your life at age 24, including what features does the community they will live in possess? How do they want to spend your free time? How would they know if they have a fun and rewarding job? Students will then be challenged to create a monthly budget that aligns with their vision for themselves at age 24.

Module 2: CyberHealth: Digital Data Check-Up
In this module, students will explore and evaluate how digital data is stored, transferred, and secured. Students will learn strategies individuals, organizations and businesses use to manage their digital data while being introduced to career fields that support organizations and businesses in managing their Digital Thread effectively and securely.

Module 3: Seas of Opportunity: Sharing the Harvest
In this module, learners will explore career fields that allow individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments to benefit from aquatic resources found in their community. Students will get the chance to demonstrate what they’ve learned by developing a simple business and marketing plan for a food truck that features locally and legally sourced seafood.

Module 4: Branching Out: Growing and Building
In this module, students will explore career fields that allow individuals, businesses, organizations, and governments to benefit from forest resources. They’ll get the chance to demonstrate what they have learned by creating a digital infographic that shares the lifecycle and suggestions for increasing the sustainability of a wood, fiber, energy, or a non-timber forest product.

Module 5: Innovative Communities: Work, Play, Stay
In this module, you will explore careers, technologies, and entrepreneurial mindset that fosters the creation of a sustainable, innovative community. You’ll leverage your understanding of digital devices and the Internet of Things (Iot) to develop and pitch an idea that makes your community an even better place to work, play or stay.

Module 6: Academic & Career Plan: Pursuing Opportunities
In this module, you will investigate and research a career pathway that aligns with your interests, passions, and goals. To launch you on a pathway to success, you will develop a personalized Academic & Career Plan.