Civil Municipal Magazine - Nov 2023

170 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 11 practical knowledge about the technologies they’d otherwise only encounter in the workforce. There is also Business Pathway partnered with Perry Brothers, an oil and gas company, where students can work to gain specific operational knowledge regarding what it takes to run a multimillion-dollar venture. Many of these pathways are available to students at even the earliest stages of their development, as even students who are interested in engineering and robotics have blended curricula that include things like 3D simulations and a Lego League with building competitions that are fully integrated into their math and science classes. The goal behind these pathways is to keep students engaged with education as early as possible while reducing the time it takes to figure out what they want to do with themselves as they get older. This is a big motivator behind the district’s