Virtual Exploration
Career & Job shadowing For Students Grades 4 - 8
Description: Through an interactive student-led journey, Couragion provides insight into the working lives of professionals. Couragion builds awareness of the opportunities available to students, expands their career interests, maps relevance of their near term coursework to career pathways, and facilitates the creation of career portfolios.
With Couragion, students engage with relatable role models who mirror a diverse demographic. Students cultivate interests by engaging with curated, personalized content related to their best fit careers. Schools and educators can customize the experience with hyper-local information that engages the community.
Learning Outcomes: Career Consciousness, Career Literacy, Classroom Relevance, STEM Competency Development, Cross Disciplinary Awareness
Details: Flexibly designed for 5 - 30 classroom hours in 30-minute increments.
Standards: Units are aligned to American School Counselor Association (ASCA), Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) and Personalized Learning Plans (PLPs), and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Pathway Skill Building
Microbadging for Middle & High School Students
Description: Couragion provides work-based Challenges to ensure students are future ready. Students gain practical occupational and employability skills and apply that knowledge to solve authentic problems.
Our Challenges better serve underrepresented populations by incorporating: greater purpose of how careers help society, animals, and the environment; real world context that shows relevance of learning tasks; and mastery of career-specific skills via applied exercises.
Learning Outcomes: Applied Computer Science, Data Analytics, and Engineering Skills Development; Occupational and Employability Skills Advancement
Details: Flexibly designed for 5 - 30 classroom hours in 30-minute increments.
Standards: Units are aligned to K-12 Computer Science Framework, Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), International Technology & Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA), Engineering For US All (E4USA), and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Skill Building curricular modules
Agile Software Life Cycle
IT Systems
Product Management
Quality Assurance
Technical Support
User Experience
Additive Manufacturing
Design for Additive Manufacturing (DAM)
Materials Manufacturing
Production Planning
Quality and Safety
Sustainable Manufacturing
Engineering Design and CAD
Engineering Ethics
Human Factors Engineering
Materials Engineering
Power and Energy
Resource Management
Business Intelligence
Data Analytics
Leadership
Marketing Technology
Sales Management
Service Delivery
“Couragion was a good way to get students energized about CS. They were excited about the idea of getting to play with an app that could help them with their career goals. It was fun to try a new learning style different than what they'd been used to in CS class.” — STEM Educator
Educator Professional Learning & Support
We measure student outcomes and our results are proven to boost engagement and pathway retention. We've tested the efficacy of our curriculum in authentic learning environments. We take educator feedback seriously and have introduced many new features based on their ideas.
navigator dashboard
Our educator companion tool provides student detail and individual portfolios, key group metrics, and lesson plans.
online training & support
Our implementation is stress free. We provide crosswalks to make it easy to use Couragion in the classroom.
professional learning
Our Career Literacy workshops enable educators to earn microcredentials in engineering, CS, and data science.