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Planning for the Future

Welcome back to my blog! This post is for the first Action Project of the STEAM class, Economics: Risking Value. As a class with only two Action Projects, this post and another in the future will show off a lot of work completed over a few weeks. In this first unit, Growth, we have investigated the economic and math concepts that would be useful in modeling choices. Throughout the class, we read Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, which presented economic utilities through real-life examples. We have also explored how incentives can persuade others and affect decisions. Other essential vocabulary words such as opportunity cost, supply, and demand became useful leading up to the AP. For Field Experiences, we met with a Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago representative, who talked with us about what the FED does nationally and locally. In this Action Project, we have been tasked with thinking about plans after graduating high school. We would have to consider college and its cost, as well as careers we were interested in pursuing and the demand for them in the future. The following audio introduction and presentation explain my process through this AP, so please enjoy. 






I hope you enjoyed listening to and reading the work I had done on this Action Project. Completing this took a lot of time and effort but I am happy that I was able to do a project like this. As I was working, my idea of pursuing civil engineering as a career seemed to solidify and I gained more confidence in pushing myself toward my ambitions. Being able to speak with my neighbor about their experience as a civil engineer was great and I am lucky to have access to that information nearby. I did feel somewhat intimidated by the cost of paying off tuition for Colorado School of Mines, especially because it is my top school for college applications but my calculations do not consider scholarships, and also picture student loans paying for everything college requires so I wouldn't have to actually pay that much. This AP gave me the chance of hearing what careers my classmates were looking into which I found very interesting. Thank you for reading and I hope to see you in the next post!
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