
Lessons in Career Quest
Day 1: Discover your Interests
Kick off your quest by exploring personal strengths, interests, and personality. Begin to connect who you are with potential career paths.
Day 2: Career Sectors
Through mini challenges and real-world examples, campers begin identifying careers that spark their curiosity.
Day 3: Future-Proof Skills
Build essential skills needed across all careers. Collaborative challenges highlight how these skills are critical for any career path.
Day 4: Making It Real
Engage in activities tied to specific career fields and gain insight into day-to-day tasks and responsibilities.
Day 5: Create your Career Vision
Present personal strengths, interests, talents, and skills and showcase how they align with your vision of a successful future.
Visit the “Details” tab for the course overview, outcomes, essential skills, and standards alignment.
Overview:
Survey a variety of exciting career paths—from engineering and healthcare to media and entrepreneurship. Through interactive activities, task challenges, and strengths exploration, campers discover their interests and start building a vision for their future.
Outcomes:
- Understand career skills
- Identify personal strengths
- Define employability skills
- Make personal connections to career
- Plan nutritious snacks
- Create healthy and delicious recipes
- Build critical thinking skills
- Apply creative thinking
Essential Skills:
- Critical-Thinking
- Self-Awareness
- Analytical Thinking
- Creative Thinking
- Life Skills
- Decision-Making
- Manners/Etiquette
- Collaboration
Standards Alignment:
- CCSS
- NGSS
- ISTE
- CASEL
- NHES
- TEKS




