Smartfutures.org Website Review

A Career Planning and Portfolio Platform for Kids, Te*ns and Young Ad*lts Surveys, activities and skill building tools provide self awareness needed to identify realistic career goals. Explore careers and clusters that match you and your goals. Get guidance from an eMentor. Find relevant programs and majors and identify schools and colleges offering the best return on your investment. Smart Futures is a Pittsburgh-based non-profit software development organization in the field of education and workforce development. Our mission is to provide schools and education agencies with SmartFutures.org, an online career planning and portfolio platform that helps all students be ready for post-secondary success. SmartFutures.org uses Pennsylvania’s Academic Standards for Career Education and Work as a blueprint for the software ‘s development. Implemented in hundreds of schools and agencies in our home state, SmartFutures.org now serves as a proven framework to delivering career planning, skill credentialing, and eMentoring within any clas*room in the United States. Fun, interactive activities are presented across four grade ranges so that users have age-appropriate material as they progress through SmartFutures.org uses badges to provide student-focused evidence of achievement. Activity completion leads to the award of Future Ready Badges across the four main academic standards for career education and work. “I” statements translate the learning into student-focused expressions of what they are empowered as a result of the learning. SmartFutures.org uses interactive cards to help kids explore and research opportunities available to them, especially those within their local community. The site incorporates location-based Career Cards, Cluster Cards, Programs and Majors Cards and Schools and SmartFutures.org values students’ gaining critical workplace skills while enrolled in school or a workforce readiness program. Skill improvement, badging and credentialing begins with math and reading and expands to include other 21st century skills critical to