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Jobs that use a student's skills
A student enters their skills and sees up to three realistic next jobs, with local pay ranges. No job is ranked above another.
Open to anyone. No access code.
Try it as a studentAlex for Schools · for districts, counselors, and CTE directors
Explore local jobs, training and classroom activities.
For districts, counselors and teachers: classroom activities built on local industries, a map of which high-school courses count toward college credit, local job and pay data for counselors, and free career tools for every student.
The research is freeDistricts govern it and pay nothing
Working softwareFour tools you can try, not slides
Student privacyNo student accounts, no names
What Alex helps you produce
Four things a counselor or teacher can use
One opens with no access code. The other three are district previews that need a code, and each card says so before you click.
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Classroom activity from a local industry
A ready-to-teach activity built on a real problem from a local industry, with the job and pay data behind it.
District preview: access code by request.
Preview a classroom activity (Challenge Studio)
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How high-school courses count toward college credit
Which AP, IB and dual-credit courses count toward degree requirements at Indiana colleges, and where a credential leads locally. Each college sets its own credit rules.
District preview: access code by request.
Preview the course-to-credit map (Degree Dash)
District preview
Local jobs and pay, for counselors
The county's job and pay data written for counseling conversations, with sources named and kept current.
District preview: access code by request.
Preview the counselor data
The research stays free. The software is optional. The Hamilton
Pathways Lab, our work-based-learning research with all six school
corporations and The Pursuit Institute, is free, district-governed, and
benefits the county whether or not any district buys anything. Alex for
Schools is the optional software on top. That separation protects the
trust this work depends on.
The four tools, from classroom to first job
Each tool below is working software you can try as a fictional district before any conversation. The district demo needs an access code: access is granted on request, so email us and we will send yours.
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Challenge Studio: classroom activities from local industries
Real problems from local industries, turned into classroom activities matched to your career and technical education courses. Simulated work-based learning hours are recorded as activities are taught, counting toward the 75-hour requirement for the Class of 2029 diploma.
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Degree Dash: which courses count toward college credit
Your course catalog matched to degree requirements at Indiana colleges: each AP, IB and dual-credit course shows the college time and cost it may save. Each college sets its own credit rules. Parents can see it; counselors plan with it.
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Local jobs and pay, for counselors
Growing career paths, pay ranges for the Indianapolis area, and the same data the county plans with, written for counseling conversations.
Live demo (access code by request) → -
Alex for every student: free career tools
Career tools free for every student and family, on their own device, collecting nothing: local jobs, pay ranges and what each path requires, with real numbers instead of interest quizzes alone.
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What the evidence says
3x more likely employed
In the national NLTS2 study of transition-age youth with disabilities, students with at least one paid job in high school were over three times more likely to be employed after school. Paid work-based learning hours are what this suite tracks, for the students who need them most (Chen et al. 2021, Journal of Disability Policy Studies).
2028 skills gap
Industry 4.0 is opening a technical-plus-soft-skills gap that a 2024 review forecasts at millions of unfilled manufacturing positions by 2028; Challenge Studio's industry challenges aim curriculum straight at it (Rikala et al. 2024, Technological Forecasting & Social Change).
45.2% college-going, boys
Indiana boys enroll in college at 45.2% vs 58.1% for girls, and gender-siloed pathways route them away from growing health and education fields. Clear non-college pathways are the documented fix (Sagamore Institute 2026).
How districts start
1 · Counselor access, today
Free
For every Hamilton County district, no contract: Alex for every student and family, local job and pay data for counselors, and the Hamilton Pathways Lab research, always free.
Get counselor access
2 · See it with us
One meeting
A walkthrough of all four tools on the demo district, with your career and technical education and counseling leads in the room.
Book the walkthrough
3 · District partnership
$18,000/yr
Per school corporation: all four tools on your own course catalogs, work-based learning and diploma-requirement tracking, and a named team that updates it as county data is refreshed. Founding price, held for your first full year; see our terms. The Pursuit Institute license ($15,000/yr) covers TPI's own students county-wide.
Ask about a district partnershipFor districts: purchasing runs through a conversation with us, not an online checkout, so your procurement rules apply. For students: nothing here is for sale; start exploring free. Student data posture: no student accounts and no names. Work-based learning hours are logged under a pseudonym the district holds, and appear here only in aggregate; the roster never leaves the district.