Career Cluster: Digital Technology
The Digital Technology Career Cluster centers on creating digital systems for communication and data management, leveraging key technologies like artificial intelligence, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Students prepare for careers that lead and adapt in a rapidly evolving tech landscape, driving innovation across industries.
Learning Plans
AppCraft: Designing Digital Experiences
Students will consider the challenges they face in their personal, academic, social, and emotional lives. They will engage in the process of designing digital experiences to address real-world issues and improve their daily routines.
Activate Your Body, Activate Change, Activate Your Future
This plan helps students address rising adolescent obesity, diabetes, and heart disease by promoting physical activity, nutrition, and mental wellness. They research and develop a product or service to encourage healthy habits, gaining awareness of health careers and practical insights into the industry.
Robots Wanted!
Students explore fruit and vegetable farms to understand the labor involved, research farm economics and plant life cycles, and examine ways mechanization or robotics can reduce manual work. They present their findings to an agricultural engineer to begin developing solutions to labor shortages.
Water Ops for Growing
Students design and create a smart watering system for a small herb garden.
Simulation: Live Shark Tank
In this simulation, students conduct market research, start a business, and pitch their product or service to community members posing as sharks, similar to a Shark Tank episode.
Simulation: Drones in High-Tech Farming
Students discover the science behind how a drone works, explore how drones are used in agriculture, and program and operate a drone for the purpose of monitoring grazing sheep.
Simulation: Posterized!
Students take on the role of a graphic designer to complete a poster project that meets the needs of their “client.”
Let’s Glow!
Students explore simple circuits and sewing techniques while designing and making a custom “smart” stuffed animal.
Outhack the Hackers
Students explore the history of cybersecurity and research current topics, then create a website, game, interactive presentation, or brochure to teach younger students how to stay safe from hackers and scams.