Career Cluster: Financial Services

The Financial Services Career Cluster prepares students for careers that support the financial health of individuals and organizations and contribute to economic growth. Students gain knowledge and skills in areas such as banking, lending, corporate finance, debt management, accounting, insurance, and real estate.

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Learning Plans

Students practice event planning by creating a personalized party plan for a real client, using interviews and feedback to refine ideas, solve challenges, and organize logistics while applying creativity, communication, and critical thinking.

Students investigate housing insecurity by taking on construction and design roles, researching the challenges of homelessness, and developing a client-centered housing plan that balances safety, affordability, functionality, and dignity, then present their design to an audience.

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.

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.

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.

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Student groups research target markets to identify community needs and propose a business plan to a mock city council offering downtown revitalization grants to attract more foot traffic.

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Students survey peers about healthy concession products, choose one to test in class, and present it to a guest panel as a healthy option.

Computer Sticky Notes

Students create a feasible business plan for a chosen product or service, including marketing, cost analysis, and a prototype or service plan. They present their plans to guest “Sharks” or DECA/FBLA officers from the feeder high school.