Empowering educators to provide career awareness and planning through Registered Youth Apprenticeships, teacher externships, and Missouri Connections.

A non-traditional career path is defined as one gender making up less than 25% of employment in that career cluster or pathway. The RPDC’s Non-Traditional Career Exploration Events are designed for 8^th-12^th grade students to experience opportunities towards learning about career paths and occupations through exploration, engagement, and participation in hands-on activities in a career path they may be interested in.  Students’ experience work related sessions created and led by business/industry leaders and employees, college/university faculty, staff, and students focusing on specific career clusters and pathways, identifying beneficial high school courses and necessary workplace readiness skills needed for a chosen career path.

Students are encouraged to participate in Missouri Connections Self-Surveys and Career Plan Activities, serving as exploratory tools to identify possible career path interests.