What is College and Career Awareness?  It is a 7th grade core subject that facilitates exploration of the following subjects:

Agriculture
Imagine learning what plants and animals produce fiber for clothing.

Business-Economics-Marketing
Imagine creating a slide show utilizing specialized software applications. Imagine participating in an activity where the economic principles of cost and benefit are explored, and then learning how to meet unlimited wants and needs with limited resources while planning a trip. Imagine participating in an activity where the economic principles of cost and benefit are explored, and then learning how to meet unlimited wants and needs with limited resources while planning a trip.

Family and Consumer Sciences
Imagine identifying personal hazards that may exist in the home, how to prevent accidents when caring for children, and demonstrating prevention of injury or illness through safe practices.

Health Science
Imagine assuming the role of an epidemiologist and figuring out what caused a group of people at a potluck dinner to become sick by analyzing the patients’ symptoms and the food they ate.

Information Technology
Imagine using software to design a flyer while making decisions about audience, purpose, color, format, and at the same time creating graphics.

Skilled and Technical Sciences
Imagine learning about careers in construction, manufacturing, communication, personal services, and protective services, while at the same time having a hands-on experience.

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