Name: Beyond Job Titles: Helping Students Discover What STEM Careers Actually Look Like
Start: 2026-07-29T14:15:00-0600
End: 2026-07-29T15:15:00-0600

Beyond Job Titles: Helping Students Discover What STEM Careers Actually Look Like

Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT

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When Belén Hoobing tried to figure out what STEM careers actually look like day to day, she couldn't find the answer in a brochure or a career fair. So she started calling professionals and asking them. Now a rising senior at Boise High School, she's built See It Then Be It, a free video library of interviews with women and other STEM professionals. In this session, she shares what she's learned about the gap between how we present STEM careers and what the work actually involves, drawing on conversations with professionals like a river-restoring environmental engineer and a Fortune 500 engineering director. She'll also walk teachers through a practical framework for making student-led career interviews part of their classrooms. Attendees leave with outreach templates, question banks by field, and a step-by-step interview guide.

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Belén Hoobing

Conference Exhibitor, Boise High, Women Innovators

I'm Belén Hoobing, an incoming senior at Boise High School in Boise, Idaho. I started See It Then Be It because I was trying to figure out what I wanted to study in college and realized that most career advice for high schoolers tells you job titles, not what the work actually feels... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:15pm - 3:15pm MDT
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Out of School/Informal Education, 9-12

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