Meaningful career exploration for middle school

Support middle school students with career exploration while ensuring compliance with high school readiness requirements.

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Join over 11,000 schools using YouScience to jumpstart their middle school students’ futures

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Career exploration

Uncover strengths, explore careers, and spark excitement for the future

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High school readiness

Choose the right courses and pathways with confidence

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Tracking and reporting

Gain data-driven insights to measure progress and guide student success

A college and career readiness platform built for middle school

Aptitude discovery

Career exploration

Course planner

Aptitude discovery

Use research-backed tools to help students identify aptitudes and interests to explore best-fit career possibilities.

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Career exploration

Introduce students to career pathways early to guide informed decisions.

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Course planner

Help students map out high school courses aligned with future goals.

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How it works

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Complete assessments

6th graders take the Interest Profiler, while 7th and 8th graders complete Discovery.

Assess

Explore best-fit careers

Review career clusters and best-fit careers based on assessment results.

Attract

Save favorite careers

Select and favorite top careers of interest for future exploration.

Build

Plan high school courses

Work with a counselor to build a 4-year high school course plan.

Recruit

Start resume building

Begin tracking achievements and experiences with the resume builder tool.

Why YouScience for middle school educators

CTE Directors

$Build early career awareness: Introduce students to career pathways aligned with their strengths and interests to support future CTE enrollment.
$Strengthen high school pathways: Guide students in making informed choices about CTE programs that match their aptitudes.
$Support workforce readiness: Equip students with industry-recognized certifications that validate skills and prepare them for future careers.

Counselors

$Personalized student guidance: Use aptitude-driven insights to help students explore careers and make confident academic decisions.
$Streamline high school planning: Align students’ strengths with course selections to ensure a smoother transition to high school.
$Increase student engagement: Show students the real-world relevance of their education to boost motivation and long-term success.

Principals and Supterintendents

$Data-driven decision making: Leverage aptitude and career data to inform curriculum planning and program development.
$Improve student outcomes: Connect students with meaningful learning experiences that enhance engagement and achievement.
$Enhance college & career readiness: Ensure students leave middle school with a clear vision and plan for their future.

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“YouScience has been an invaluable tool for us. It’s a tool in my counselor toolbox to be able to use to direct kids in the right direction.”

—Holly Reeves, Counselor, Adele C. YoungIntermediate, Utah

“YouScience helps students move from aptitudes directly into a career search. That’s one of the most helpful things, just being able to identify the language to use.”

—Dr. Christie Palladino, Teacher, Biomedical Science Program, Aiken County Career and Technology Center, South Carolina

“As a former guidance counselor turned CTE Director, I love the way that YouScience assesses aptitude. Any other aptitude test that I have ever worked with measures what the student "thinks" they are good at. You don't know what you don't know, so students don't have any idea that they might be good at something if they don't know much about it!"

— Cami McClenny, CTE director, Enterprise City Schools, Alabama