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Focus Your Future

Welcome to the

Career Exploration Reception

Enter your School

Name, Logo, and

Date


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What kind of things do you want in a career?


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• Is Enjoyable “How happy I will be

what’s the point of doing

something you don’t like?”

• Provides a Good Working

Environment “If I can’t interact with

people…I will probably quitthe job”

• Will Allow Me toMake a ifference “!hat I would make adifference in some way" youknow" make my mark onthe world”

• Earns a GoodIncome “#s shallow as it sounds"money is the one thing I ha$eto consider when I’mchoosing a job I’m not goingto do something that I knowcan’t help me pay bills”

• !as "le#ible$chedules “%y career can’t consume allof my time…I need free timeto do a lot of other things…before I die”

I want a career that%%%


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And yes, I know that you aren’t a geek.

And yes, I know that math & sciencemay not be your best subjects.

I know engineering may not sound fun.

And yes, I know that you don’t want to

work in a cubicle and get fed pizzas.

&ut' do you want to (


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•o!e your work and li!e your life

• "e creati!e

• #ork with other great people

• $ol!e problems that impro!e life• %ot be bored

• ake a great salary

• 'a!e job fle(ibility• )ra!el

Igniting imagination and innovation


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Engineers are changing

the world all of the time.They dream up creative,

practical solutions and

work with teams of

smart, inspiring peopleto invent, design, and

create things that

matter.

What is engineering?


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Engineers use their imagination and analytical

skills to invent, design, and build things that matter.

They are team )layers with inde)endent

minds who ask, !ow can we develop a betterrecycling system to protect the environment, design

a school that can withstand an earth"uake, or create

cutting#edge special effects for the movies$% &ydreaming up creative and )ractical solutions,

engineers are changing the world all the time.


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*et+s take

a look at

an engineer%


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Source) Engineeryourlife.org

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Engineers aren+t like little ilbert% *et+s

take a look at some real engineers%

GO TO:engineeryourlife.org

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0reate habitats for /oos to kee) animals

safe

0reate new medicines 1 investigate curesfor diseases

esign e#hibits and rides for theme )arks

evelo) techni2ues to make foods taste

better 1 stay fresh longer

0reate the technology which increases

the ability to solve crimes

What Engineers Can Do..


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!ow canProject *ead .he Way

coursework

hel) you )re)arefor engineering

or college in

general?


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What will you learn in P*.W courses?


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Can you think of a collegemajor or a career where

these attributes wouldNOT be valuable?

P*.W classes can benefitalmost every student-


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• College #reparatory,athematics %lge(ra Geometry %lge(ra #re0calculus or Trigonometry

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