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You are probably tired o people asking, What do you want to be when you grow

up? Some students know exactly what they want to do, but most havent got a

clue. The idea o choosing a career is intimidating, and it eels like its ar in the

uture. Theres little time in the commotion o classes, activities, sports, work, and un to

think about what career you want to pursue ater graduation rom high school or college.

It pays, though, to take the time to think about your uture career. The truth is that

youll save a lot o time and money i you have a direction in lie, as opposed to just

fnishing high school and worrying about it later. Its really a matter o dollars and

sense. I you choose a career direction now, you can select classes and activities that will

make you highly marketableand highly paidwhen you look or work. And it only

makes sense to have an idea o what you want to do rather than just wandering aimlessly

through school.

Nobody wants that. Not your parents. Not your teachers. Not your riends. They want

you to besomebody. They want you to use your talents, ollow your interests, and pursue

your ambitions to become great at what you love to

do in lie. Thats what you should want, too.

So the time is right to take charge o your lie and

think about the uture. You need a plan o action

or how to get rom where you are today to where

you want to be in a ew years: starting out on a

personally and proessionally rewarding career.

Thats what AchieveTexas in Actionis all about. The

magazine you are holding is one o 16 guides to dierent

career clusters. It is designed to help you make smarter

decisions about your education and career options.

Youve heard the phrase, Inormation is power. Well, this magazine is power. It puts

you squarely in charge o your uture, rom creating your Texas Achievement Plan (TAP)

(see page 5) to choosing college or some other orm o education or training ater high

school. Work with your parents, teachers, and counselors to make decisions, but remind

everyone that it isyouruture at stake and thatyouare taking charge o it.

Get inormation. Get a plan. Get a clue about your career direction. Its all right i that

direction changes; choosing a direction now is better than having no direction at all. Just

promise yoursel that youll make smart choices about where to ocus your time, energy,

and passion.

Were proud that you are taking steps to plan your career direction, and we pledge that

your school, teachers, and counselors will do all they can to help you make wise choices

on your plans or success. We wish you the best o luck on your journey.

Dear Texas Student,

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When I was in high school, saysSheryl Kovach, Human Resourcesdirector o Environmental

Services at Phillips Services Corporationin Houston, the only job that I even knewabout was receptionist work. I didnt aspireto be a manager or entrepreneur because I

really didnt know about those disciplines.I was just looking orward to graduating.That was it. I really didnt know what it

was I wanted to do.Sound amiliar? You, too, may

not have a clue about what to dowith your lie.

Dont worry, though. Helpis right here in your hands.This issue oAchieveTexasin Actionis your guide

to education and careerchoices that can shape your

uture. Its one o 16 careercluster guides publishedby AchieveTexas,

Texass

college and career initiative (www.AchieveTexas.org). This edition is all

about Science, Technology, Engineeringand Mathematics.Lets start with some basic steps you

should take to get organized, plan or theuture, and start on the road to success.

Ae Yor Talet ad Alte

First, you need to fgure out some thingsabout yoursel. This step can be as simpleas writing down a list o your interests(like video games or rock climbing), yourhopes and dreams (like helping others),

your talents (like writing or math ability),

and your weaknesses (i youre squeamishat the sight o blood, or example, youmight not want to be a doctor).

Follow up on this inormal exercise

by taking some ormal assessments todetermine your interests and abilities.

Common assessments include the Kuder(www.kuder.com), Bridges (www.bridges.com), Career Cruising (www.careercruising.com), COIN (www.coinedu.com), andMyers-Briggs (www.myersbriggs.org) tests.These tools give most o our students somecareer exploration awareness by the timethey enter eighth or ninth grade.

Ask your principal or counselor aboutcareer assessments available at your school.

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Once youve learned about yoursel, learn

more about your career options. Thereare thousands o occupations out thereo which you may never have heard.Fortunately, there are plenty o resources

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(see inside back cover) or you, and they are as close asthe nearest computer.

One o the most helpul is the Occupation andSkill Computer-Assisted Researcher (or OSCAR,or short) rom the Texas Workorce Commission.It is a vast database o inormation about hundredso proessions. You can fnd OSCAR at www.ioscar.org/tx. Another good place to start is O*NET

(www.onetcenter.org).Gather inormation about what you can earn in the

careers in which you are interested. Find out whetherthe careers you are considering have a promisingutureare they adding or losing jobs? Check out theeducation youll need to enter those careers.

The chart on pages 1011 presents data on 25possible proessions. Remember, though, that theseare just a sampling o careers available in the cluster.Go to OSCAR, O*NET, or another resource toinvestigate other careers.

Create Your TAP

Once you have a better idea o your interests andabilities, you are ready to plan or high school andbeyond. The Texas Achievement Plan, or TAP, is yourplan or preparing or the career o your choice.

First students choose a cluster, not a particularoccupational goal. In the eighth grade a student mightchoose Science, Technology or Engineering and thenlater become interested in a narrower feld such aschemistry or civil engineering.

The program o study you chooseand yourplandoes not stop with graduation rom highschool, A student could then pursue a two-year degreeas a chemical technician or a our-year degree as achemist.

You should set up a TAP that takes you throughcareer preparation after high school, revising your planas needed as you go along. If your career plans includecollege study, ask your counselor about tests requiredfor admission to college, such as the PSAT, SAT, or ACT.

Seek Out Special Programs

Many Texas schools oer innovative programs toprepare students or specifc career areas. Theseinclude career and technical education (CTE)programs, academies, and magnet schools. Once

youve decided on a career direction, ask yourcounselor about special programs in your area thatmay provide related experiences in your chosen career.

Samuel Odamah enrolled in the architectureprogram at the University o Texas at Arlington,having ound his career calling at Dallass SkylineCareer Development Center, a high school with careerprograms in a number o dierent felds.

Skyline is one o the ew schools in the countrythat oer programs in architecture, Odamah says.In some careers, Skyline students could even getproessional certifcations or licenses right in highschool. It was a great place because you could fnd outwhether you really wanted to enter a career.

Odamah says that the career cluster system atSkyline taught him the value o planning or his career

and his lie. We learned about planning ahead, hesays. Those who plan things ahead o time dont haveto catch up. Its just a matter o what a person wantsout o lie. Planning gives you a better platormor success.

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Acareer cluster is a group o occupations and broadindustries that share certain eatures. The Science,Technology, Engineering & Mathematics cluster,

or example, includes chemists and civil engineers. Texashas adopted 16 career clusters (see back cover), the sameones designated and developed by the U.S. Department oEducation. As the graphic below shows, within each cluster

are programs o study, which are more specifc groupings osimilar occupations. Think o a program o study as beinglike a college major. In Science, Technology, Engineering &Mathematics, you might choose to ocus on Engineering and

Technology or Science and Math in high school and college.

Related Occpato

Each program o study includes a range o relatedoccupations; mechanical engineer is an example o anoccupation that alls within Engineering and Technology.Choosing a career cluster and program o study will help youacquire the knowledge and skills youll need to enter your

chosen career. It will allow you to ollow a seamless course ostudy rom high school into college or other postsecondaryeducation or training. The electives you choose cancomplement your core academic classes to prepare you orthe challenges o the real world o work.

Reew Yor TAP Eac Year

Dont get locked into a cluster and program o study youdont like. You should reexamine your TAP at least once a

year and change programs or clusters i your interests havechanged. Choosing a cluster and program o study, even i

it changes later, means that youll have a direction in lie.The idea is to be aware o whats going on in your lie andtake control o your uture. When you know where youreducation is going and why, your classes will become moremeaningul. Youll make contact with students, teachers,and employers who share your interest in a particular careerarea. Youll have experiences that are un and exciting. Youllbe on your way to success in school, in a career, and in lie.

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cluster on which you want to ocus your studies as well

as your career and postsecondary education goals. Dontworry. You arent locked into your choices. You shouldrevisit your TAP at least once a year to update it. Youcan change clusters, programs o study, and career andpostsecondary goals as your interests and ambitionschange. Having a planeven i it changesis smarterthan having no idea o what you want to do and why you

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Most people dont thinko those working inScience, Technology,

Engineering & Mathematicscareers as adventurers and

explorers, but theyre wrong.In their heads, these high-techworkers are boldly going whereno one has gone beore. Fromthe iPod in your pocket to the personal computers in the schoollibrary, the things they discover and invent transorm the way welive, work, and play.

Engineers and technologists are those prepared to imagine,design, and build a better world, says John Hansen, Ph.D,director o the Ingenuity Center at the University o Texasat Tyler. The Ingenuity Center is dedicated to promoting thetraining o tomorrows scientifc adventurers in middle and high

schools. Hansen says this feld

is ull o excitingsometimesearthshakingcareers.

The Science, Technology,Engineering & Mathematicscluster oers a wide range oimportant career choices, hesays. In act, the worlds uturewill be propelled by ideas thatwill be developed by many o themen and women in these felds.

Tea i Terrfc

Texas is a terrifc place to be i youre interested in a career in

science and technology. According to the Texas Healthcare andBioscience Institute, the state boasts the third-largest number oscientists and engineers in the United States.

Theres plenty o room or talented new minds, too. Texas hadmore than 450,000 jobs in the proessional, scientifc, and technicalservices felds in 2006, and the Texas Workorce Commissionexpects jobs in the sector to leap by 24 percent by 2016, well abovethe growth rate or all jobs in the state.

Jonathan Startin, manager o the Trans-Texas Corridorconstruction project or Halcrow, Inc., says the uture isparticularly bright or engineers who design our roads, rail

systems, and bridgesthe inrastructure we need to move peopleand goods.

As the worlds population continues to grow, the demand orinrastructure can only increase, he says, and the need or moreinrastructure will certainly mean a need or more and moreengineers.

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People who succeed in this cluster generally have a strong

attention to detail, says Hansen. Ater all, get one letter wrong inchemistry and instead o aluminumAlyou could end up with

arsenicAs. That could be a pretty serious mistake.

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To succeed in this cluster, you have to have a talent or math andscience, but Hansen says some students, particularly women andminorities, tend to give up on science careers too early. Manyo these students, he says, who would be excellent scientists or

engineers, preselect themselves out o these utures because

they havent done well in precollege science andmath classes. So i you havent excelled in mathand science so ar, dont assume you can never be

successul.Although diversity doesnt guarantee invention and innovation, the

more diverse our Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

workorce is, the more diverse our idea pool becomes, Hansen says.Id encourage everyone to explore how to excel in math and science.Its never too late to choose your own road to success.

Commcato ad Creatty

Because teamwork is critical in technical felds, communicationskills can be as important as math and science. I always look orgood team players, says Startin. Roads are not built quickly or byone person working alone.

Learning how to read, write, and speak English well is essential,says Moehlenbruck. Creativity, too, is a plus. To make a dierencein science and technology, you have to be able to create or designnew and dierent approaches to

problems.Michael Dell, chairman o Dell

Inc., based in Round Rock, becamea billionaire by understanding the

big picture and tackling challengescreatively. Its through curiosity andlooking at opportunities in new waysthat weve always mapped our path atDell, he has said in media interviews.Theres always an opportunity tomake a dierence.

I look or creativity whenIm hiring, says Start in. A good

scientist, mathematician, orengineer is always looking ora better solution to, well,everything.

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hen he was a kid, Joseph Nors toreapart his big brothers model blimp tofgure out how the electronics worked.

I was always tearing apart toys, says Nors,now an electronics technician at the FederalBureau o Investigation ofce in San Antonio.As I got older, it was more expensive things,like old cell phones.

Its that kind o curiosity, a constant urgeto get at the why and how o things,that makes or success on the job in Science,Technology, Engineering & Mathematics.

Detecte Work

I use math all the time to answer questionslike, Why am I seeing what Im seeing inthis satellite image? says Curt Reutner,

an air pollution meteorologistwith the Texas Commission onEnvironmental Quality.

Sometimes when anunexpected pollutant showsup and we have no clue where

it comes rom, says Reutner,it takes time and a lot odetectivelike activity tofgure it out.

The most exciting part o his job, Reutnersays, is when the detective work pays o. Youhave that eureka moment. Youve fgured outwhats happening and why its happeningthe light bulb goes on.

Nors says, however, it can take a whilebeore you reach that moment, and thatrequires patience. You cant get discouragedeasily, he says.

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To be a successul scientifc detective, youneed the ability to look at things in totallynew ways, says Fort Worth chemist MichaelJ. Brubaker, who works in research anddevelopment at the pharmaceutical companyAlcon Laboratories.

Brubaker, who directs research anddevelopment (R&D) activities or one oAlcons eye-care product units, enjoyspursuing answers to challenging problems.You have the reedom to use your mindto discover and create new ideas and new

products, he says.All that creativity has to begin with the

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Because new discoveries are always beingmade in science and technology, analyzingdata and new developments is something

you have to do continuously.There are always inventions and creations

that will change our jobs. We have to keepup with what is new out there, says LisaMahlmann, a senior manager o utilities andsubsystems at Lockheed Martin AeronauticsCompany in Fort Worth, responsible ordesign o the mechanical systems on military

aircrat built by the company.Most people in the feld stay on top o the

changes by reading scientifc journals andattending proessional conerences at which

researchers and academic scientists presentthe latest fndings, Brubaker explains.

Work wt OterResearchers not only come together toshare the latest developments at meetings,but also team up on the job to generate thedevelopments in the frst place.

Many people have an image o a scientistas a guy with a beard, lab coat, and Einstein-like hair working in a dark lab all alone, saysSharlini Sankaran, a biomedical engineerand the manager o education programs atSigma Xi, a scientifc research society. Inreality, scientists rarely work alone.

That makes communication skills critically

important, Reutner says. You could be themost brilliant person in the world, but i youcant write about your work or present it,nobodys going to get the message.

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technology tinkering with gadgets to see

how they work, as Nors did, then its nosurprise that the same sense o play andwonder can carry over to your adult work.

I love to go to work, says Nors. I reerto the electronics devices I work with as toys.Its just like being a little kid; we get to playwith toys all day long.

Mahlmann says she gets goose bumpswhen she hears an airplane she helpeddesign take o. The sound o the wholesystem working together is really antastic.

Reutner says when his work on pollutioncontrol plays out on a big scale, everybody

benefts. Many people say, Think globallyand act locally, he says. Im living it. Imactually making a dierence in the world.

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Benjamin Salinas loved math rom anearly age. In seventh grade I tookAlgebra and, at that time, a lot o my

riends were very much into math, he

recalls. To this day, I still like math agreat deal.Then came an experience that changed

his direction in lie. During his reshmanyear at the Science Academy o South Texas(SciTech), a magnet school in Mercedes,Salinas took Introduction to EngineeringDesign, the frst class in a series o coursesdesigned by Project Lead The Way (see

Spotlight on next page).My dad studied engineering at college,

Salinas says, but I had no idea what anengineer did. It was in that class that I frst

said, Oh, okay, this is what engineering isall about.Salinas discovered he loved engineering,

completed the Project Lead The Wayprogram at SciTech, and is now studyingat the Franklin W. Olin College oEngineering in Needham, Massachusetts.

Looking back, he says, I think it wasvitally important that I got engineeringexperience at SciTech beore I went tocollege. In act, Im certain I wouldnt bewhere I am today i I hadnt gone there.

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Right now in Texas, students just like

Salinas are ocusing their high school studieson Science, Technology, Engineering &Mathematics. Preparation or a career inthe cluster should start with rigorousacademic courses.

Math and science are the most importantclasses or this cluster. Students in Science,Technology, Engineering & Mathematicsprograms o study should take our years

o advanced math and our years oadvanced science.In math, the recommended courses are

Algebra I and II and Geometry, as wellas Calculus or Statistics, depending onwhich career program o study you chooseto pursue. In science, the recommendedcourses are Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.For the ourth science, a number o optionsare available, including Earth and SpaceScience, Environmental Systems,and Engineering.

Career ElecteIn addition to academic studies,it is recommended that you takecareer-related electives. Theseclasses give you specializedknowledge and hands-on

experience in your chosenprogram o study.

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One o the academies at A. J. Moore isthe Academy o Emerging Technologies.There, students in the environmentalsciences program work with the U.S. ArmyCorps o Engineers to create a wetland toclean up a lake that is a main source owater or the community.

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I youre planning on going to college in thiscluster, its a good idea to take AdvancedPlacement (AP) courses in math and science,says Cheryl Yowell, career and technical

education coordinator at McKinneyIndependent School District in McKinney.

Courses in subjects such as Biology,Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science, andStatistics prepare you or tests which, i you

do well, earn you college credit while yourestill in high school.

Taking rigorous math and science APcourses put me at a level where I couldcompete in college with students whoattended prestigious private schools or mathand science academies, says David Leal,an applications engineer with FreescaleSemiconductor in Austin. Leal graduatedrom Rice University with a degree in

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study: Science and Math or Engineering andTechnology (see Program Profles at let). A

lot o the same courses can be taken or eitherprogram, including Technology Systems,Electricity, Technical Writing, and Electronics.

Electives specifc to the Science andMath program o study include AquaticScience, Scientifc Research and Design,and Meteorology. Electives specifc toEngineering and Technology includeConstruction Systems, ManuacturingSystems, and Architecture Construction.

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Other careers require only a certifcationyou can earn during or ater high school.Chris Newton, a junior at the Academy oIrving in Irving, says career and technicaleducation (CTE) courses are preparing himto get his certifcation as a Cisco networkassociate technician.

These classes have helped me fgure outwhat I want to do. Actually getting a job hasbecome a reality, says Newton. Once certifed,he will be eligible or jobs paying $18 an hour.

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Some school districts take education in Science,Technology, Engineering & Mathematics a stepurther (see High-Tech High at right). Theyestablish separate high schools or academieswithin high schools that ocus entirely onSTEM careers.

These schools oer hands-on, project-basedcourses and usually have more advanced

laboratories and equipment, saysAngela Rheiner, director o careeracademies or A. J. Moore Academyin Waco. Some require students

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While still a student at James Bowie

High School in Austin, WillWard gained more than passing

knowledge o the best depth at which toplace sonarsunderwater devices thatuse sound to track submarines and otherobjectsto protect U.S. naval bases. He wasnot working as a spy or a oreign country.In act, he was part o the High School

Apprenticeship Program at theUniversity o Texas at Austin.

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o proessional labresearchers. As part o hisexperience, Ward explains,I helped write thecomputer code that woulddetermine the right depthat which to place sonar.

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deense, but also about thevalue o hands-on learning.I learned that there is onlyso much you can do withpen and paper, he says.Sometimes you just have to

build it and see what works best.There are several similar waysincluding

job shadowing, internships, apprenticeships,part-time jobs, and competitionstogain real-world experience in Science,

Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

outside the classroom, says MichaelRodriguez, assistant director o the UpperRio Grande Texas Tech Prep YouthConsortium, which coordinates career andtech-prep education in West Texas. Someinormation can only be gained throughreal-lie experience, he says.

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One o the best ways to check out acareer beore making too much o acommitment to it, Rodriguez says, isspending a day ollowing someone who

works in a proession in which youare interested. When you job shadow,chances are just as good that youlldiscover a career you dont like as that

youll fnd something you love.There are jobs that look glamorous, says

Rodriguez. One example is orensic sciencebecause o the way its portrayed on television.But on TV, you dont see the long hours andthe dirt and the grime. Weve had studentsdead set on that career. Then we send them on

job shadows. They walk out saying, Ihatedit.

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In an internship, a student gets a morein-depth look at a particular career byworking or an employer in that feld,sometimes or pay.

Sharla Craword, a senior at Conroe HighSchool in Conroe, liked environmentalengineering when she job shadowed inthe ninth grade. When she interned withan environmental engineer or an entire

summer, though, she changed her mind.

I really got to see what environmentalengineering is about, she says. Theresa lot o paperwork and you deal with thegovernment a whole lot. I was like, Okay,this is not or me.

Another summer internship helped herfnd aerospace and mechanical engineering.It was with NASAs High School Aerospace

Scholars Program at the Johnson SpaceCenter in Houston. She worked with anaerospace engineer at the Neutral BuoyancyLab. The worlds largest indoor pool isused to simulate the weightless conditionso space. It was an amazing experience,Craword says.

Craword adds that her internships helped

her get into college. I got a reply in three daysrom the college I wanted to attend, she says.Then, in just a matter o days, they oeredme a scholarship or $5,000 a year or our

years.

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works with colleges on K12 outreach asan associate research specialist or the stategovernments Texas Transportation Institute.Such competitions are usually held or teams.In the real world, engineers and scientistsdont work in isolation, she says. Theyalmost always work as part o a team.

The Technology Student Association highlightscompetitions at its state and national meetingsthat include engineering design, radio-controlledtransportation, and animatronics. SkillsUSA, anational organization that promotes leadershipand career skills in all occupations, eatures

electronics applications, mechatronics, andtechnical math among its competition categories.

Science Olympiad (www.outreach.science.tamu.edu/scienceolympiad.asp) is one o thelargest competitions in Texas. It involves avariety o individual and team events thatollow the ormats o board games, TV shows,and athletic contests.

Another program is DestinationImagiNation (www.texasdi.org), in whichstudents work as a team to apply creativity,critical thinking, and their own individualtalents to solve a given challenge.

Finally, the First Robotics Competition(www.usfrst.org) challenges teams o

students and their mentors to build a robotto solve a common problem and then enterit into a series o competitions with otherteams robots.

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creaTe cporToLioOne valuable tool that can help you getready or college and beyond is a careerportolioa collection o items that

document your achievements both inand out o school, assembled in oneconvenient package.

A career portolio is not simplya resume, although it can certainly

include one. So what should go in acareer portolio? A variety o things,depending on your own personalexperiences. It could include transcriptsand grades; writing samples; letterso recommendation rom teachers,mentors, or employers; awards youvereceived; and items that documentother activities, such as internships and

job shadowing experiences.You need to be specifcdates, how

many years, any awards, what theymeant, and who you received themrom, says Grace Brauchle, who helpsstudents put their portolios togetheras the career center coordinator orLehman High School in Kyle.

Brauchle says portolios come inhandy when students apply or jobs oradmission to college. First impressionsare a very big thing, she says, and

you want to be the one whose papersget passed around the ofce. You want

to be the one where the admissionscounselors say, Wow, look at this one!

And a portolio doesnt have to besimply a collection o papers. Artistsand photographers use their portoliosto provide visual examples o theirwork, and so can you. Do you havephotos o someone giving you anaward? Put them in. How about a videoo a perormance? Include it on a DVD.Do you have experience in Web design?Make an online portolio to showcasewhat you can do.


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Ithink knowledge is a reward in itsel,says Arland Alberts, an instructionallaboratory supervisor in the department

o biology at the University o North Texas.That said, Alberts believes that more

education ater high school is alsoimportant or very practical reasons:it is the main road to success in careersin Science, Technology, Engineering

& Mathematics.When you pursue science, she says,

you defnitely want to go all the way toa masters or a doctoral degree. This will

ensure a better understanding o bothscientifc theory and feld experience andhow they rely on one another.

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I you choose the our-year college route,be prepared to study harder and longerthan in high school, says Benjamin Salinas,who attended the Science Academy oSouth Texas in Mercedes (see page 13)

and is now an engineering student atFranklin W. Olin College o Engineeringin Needham, Massachusetts.

In terms o the technical skills I learnedin high school compared to the skills Imlearning now, the classes Im taking now

are much more in depth, Salinas says. Wedo more working on projects as teams incollege than in high school, partly becausethats the environment Olin has created.

Salinas adds that the college workload isgreater than in most high schools. Someo my college riends say, I didnt do any

work my senior year o high school. AtOlin, Salinas says, that would get you introuble ast.

Once you leave high school, there areplenty o opportunities or frst-rate our-

year college instruction in Texas. RiceUniversity, the University o Texas

in Austin, and Texas A&M at CollegeStation, or example, have been rankedamong the top 100 universities in theworld. Rice placed 17th among colleges inAmerica in the latest listing byU.S. News& World Report. The magazine puts UT

Austins graduate program in engineeringamong the top 20 nationwide and itsgraduate program in earth sciences inthe top 10.

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(TSTC) at Harlingen, or example, oersan associate o applied science degree inmechatronics technology, which dealswith the integration o mechanics andelectronics in product and manuacturingsystem design.

One-year certifcates in advanced

technologies are also available at the ourcampuses o the Texas State TechnicalCollege. At TSTC in Waco, or example,students in digital media design earnthe virtual reality advanced technicalcertifcate by mastering the state-o-the-artVicon 82 Optical Motion Capture system.The equipment replicates the motion othe human body or medical research,engineering, and special eects in movies

and video games.Two-year colleges are also great places

to qualiy or studies toward a bachelors

degree in science or technology at a our-year college. Credits earned in communitycollege usually transer to our-year schools,and are oten less expensive to obtain.

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Another alternative or education inmany areas o Science, Technology,Engineering & Mathematics is todayshigh-tech military. Many employersvalue the kind o hands-on workexperience gained during militaryservice and servicepeople value the

boost it can give their careers.Dan Garza, or example, now a

project manager with Hewlett Packardin Houston, credits his armytraining with giving him hiscareer start in technology andcommunications.

I was into radios in highschool, he says. When I

entered the army ater high school, I wastold, We have several dierent radioschools you can go to, so I studied radiotechnology in the service. When I cameback, I went into electronics technology,working or the telephone company, thenor Chevron Oil, but always in technology

and communications.Whatever route students take to theircareer goals ater high school, Garza is afrm believer in the value o training inscience and technology.

Technology would be one o theprimary felds that I would really try topush, he says, and I dont just meancomputers. I mean technology in general,because there are so many dierent felds

in technology. It can be technology inmedicine, technology in business, inthe aerospace industry, in

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I youve gone through high school withoutmaking a big academic splash, however,dont write o careers in math and scienceautomatically. There are occupationsin the feldsuch as lab support ormanuacturing process techniciansthat

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AceeTea: the name or Texasscollege and career education initiative.

Artclato areemet:

ormal agreements between or amongeducational organizations (high schools,community colleges, and universities)that align courses and majors in a waythat allows students to transition romone institution to another without losso course credit or time.

Aocate deree:a two-yeardegree awarded by a community ortechnical college.

bacelor deree:a our-yeardegree awarded by a university.

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Career clter:a way o organizingcurricula, instruction, and assessmentaround specifc occupational groups (orexample, Inormation Technology or HealthScience) that oers students core academics,coursework related to specifc occupations,and extended learning experiences.

Career dace: structureddevelopmental experiences presentedsystematically rom kindergarten through12th grade that help students analyze andevaluate abilities, skills, and interests.

Career portolo:a collection o studentwork indicating progress made in subjects,activities, or programs. In career cluster

systems, portolios are oten used to assessstudent perormance in extended learningexperiences.

Doctoral deree:a degree awardedby universities or study beyond a mastersdegree. Also reerred to as a Ph.D. orproessional degree.

Dal credt:credit given in both highschool and college or college-level coursestaken while in high school.

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participation in career and technical studentorganizations, extracurricular activities, jobshadowing, internships, or service learning.

Facal ad:scholarships, grants, loans,and work-study unds awarded to studentsto pay or college expenses.

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experience in which students worktemporarily at entry-level jobs in careersthat interest them.

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experience in which students observeproessionals in particular careers as they gothrough a day on the job.

Mater deree: a degree awarded byuniversities or study beyond a bachelorsdegree.

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education beyond high school. Middleschool and high school are reerred to assecondary education, sopostsecondarymeansater high school.

Proram o tdy:a way o organizingthe curricula and educational activitieswithin a career cluster related to a studentsspecifc academic and career goal.

serce lear:an extended learningexperience in which students do volunteerwork related to their career goals.

Tareted dtry clter:

six industry clusters that have beenidentifed by Texas as high-demand, high-growth sectors paying high wages. As theyare developed by the State, these may be hotareas in which to build a rewarding career.

Tea Aceemet Pla (TAP):

an education plan suggesting the highschool courses a student should taketo prepare successully or graduationand transition into postsecondary

education. The vision or AchieveTexasis that eighth graders, in consultationwith their parents/guardians,counselors, and teachers, will selecta program o study and create a TAP.TAPs are to be reviewed and revised atleast once each school year.

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www.acinet.org/acinetThis is the place to search or occupationalinormation, industry inormation, andstate-specifc labor market inormation.

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Here is everything a Texan needs to knowabout preparing or, applying or, and payingor college or technical school. And its all inone up-to-date, easy-to-navigate mega-sitealmost as big as the state itsel. Remember:$4 billion is available every year to helpTexans attend college.

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The career clusters icons above are used with permission o theStates Career Clusters Initiative, 2010. For more inormation, visitwww.careerclusters.org.

AchieveTexas Career Clusters

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Well, AchieveTexas is the name of Texass college and career education initiative. The idea behind it is

simple: Planning for the future so that students achieve lifelong success. As AchieveTexas grows, youll

see how subjects such as English, math, science, and social studies are relevant to your personal goals

and ambitions. Youll get the chance to begin a plan that gets you where you want to go in life. Youll have

the opportunity to take courses and engage in extended learning experiences that give you marketable

skills. Best of all, youll be in control of your future. Read all 16 editions ofAchieveTexas in Action(available

through your counselor) to explore Texass career clusters and start on the road to success.

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