Career Choices

Who do you want to be? What do you want to do?

High School should be a time in life when kids begin exploring potential careers, but instead they spend long school days wading through subjects like algebra and literature - subjects with little relevance to real-world work. Instead of such subjects, kids need practical, hands on, real-world inspired experiences to help them try on careers and see how they fit.

Think you might want to be a doctor? Be one in simulation. Talk to simulated patients. Do some lab work. Read an MRI. Diagnose their illnesses.

Think you might want to be a software developer. Work in a team to develop a mobile smartphone app.

Engines for Education now offers a wide-range of real-life inspired, simulated job experiences (and more are on the way). In as few as 2-3 weeks full time, kids get real world opportunities and a true sense of what a career in a given field might be like. Check out the experiences available now:

Technology

• Website Developer: Build an Informational Website
• Mobile Web Application Developer (Prerequisite: Website Developer; 4 week course)
• eCommerce Developer: Build an Online Store
• Website Developer: Help Users Find Your Site (Prerequisite: Website Developer or eCommerce Developer)
• Data Analyst: Help a Web Business Understand Customer Behavior
• High-Tech Entrepreneur: Brainstorm Product and Business Ideas
• User Interface Designer: Understand User Needs
• User Interface Designer: Test and Improve Website Usability
• Computer System Administrator: Protect a Company's Site from Hackers

Business

• eCommerce Business Strategist: Plan an Online Business
• Business Consultant: Save a Company in Trouble
• Project Manager: Deliver a Big Project On Time and On Budget

Health Sciences

• Internal Medicine Physician
• Sports Medicine Physician
• Nutrition Advisor
• Medical Detective: Solve a Murder
• Genetic Engineer: Develop a Non-Allergenic Cat
• Epidemiologist: Stop the Outbreak of a Contagious Disease

For more information on our simulated job experiences, please email us at CareerChoices@Engines4Ed.org.