Nebraska Career and Technical Education Conference 2026

This session highlights how a school counselor transformed multiple professional development experiences into a student-centered career design curriculum. Grounded in the belief that who you are matters more than what you do, the session focuses on helping students discover their interests, aptitudes, and values. Through activities such as self-reflection exercises, maker mixes, mind mapping, value and task pyramids, and the “Three Lives” activity, students use YouScience to uncover strengths they may not have recognized before. Participants will gain practical strategies to help students design purposeful, flexible career paths.