Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Cluster

Question 1

clients

Answer 1

people who buy your products

Question 2

Animal Systems Pathway

Answer 2

These careers revolve around rearing and taking care of animals and include such jobs as veterinarians or veterinary assistants, animal trainers, animal breeders, and so much more! Can you see how the Animal Systems pathway can work closely with careers in the Agribusiness pathway, like Aniyah’s?

The rewarding and challenging career of a veterinarian is part of the Animal Systems pathway.

Question 3

Environmental Service Systems Pathway

Answer 3

This pathway includes exciting career paths for people who are interested in exploring the natural world. Have you ever thought about a career in recycling, pest control, or studying the environment? If so, this might be the pathway for you!

Working in a recycling plant is part of the Environmental Service Systems pathway.

Question 4

Food Products & Processing Systems Pathway

Answer 4

If you love to eat, you may consider a career in this pathway! Professionals here specialize in turning the plants and animals that people raise into food that we can all enjoy. Careers in this pathway include meat packers and butchers as well as engineers who supervise food production factories.

Butchers belong to the Food Products and Processing Systems pathway.

Question 5

Natural Resources Systems Pathway

Answer 5

Like the Environmental Service Systems pathway, careers in this pathway involve jobs that utilize and protect natural resources like conservation scientists, loggers and miners, or geoscientists.

Being a miner or a geoscientist would fall into the pathway of Natural Resources Systems.

Question 6

Plant Systems Pathway

Answer 6

The Plant Systems pathway is where you want to be if you love plants. You might find yourself working with plants to develop plant sources for food or textiles like cotton fabric, or might work as a landscaper, or be a plant scientist or certain type of farmers. (Yes, some farmers like Aniyah can fall either into this pathway or the Agribusiness Systems pathway!)

Plant scientists are part of the Plant Systems pathway.

Question 7

Power Structural & Technical Systems Pathway

Answer 7

This pathway involves careers that work with the electronics and power structures in the agricultural sector—think anything that helps farms and food and natural resource processing centers to run smoothly! Careers here include equipment operators and engineers. You may notice similarities between this pathway and the Energy cluster we’ll discuss later!

The Power Structural and Technical Systems pathways overlap with the Energy cluster and consists of jobs like engineers.

Question 8

consultant

Answer 8

A consultant is a professional who can work in any field to help businesses or other organizations function better.

Question 9

Energy career cluster

Answer 9

Energy career cluster focuses on careers in planning, managing, and providing support and technical services related to the creation, transmission (or movement), and delivery of these different types of energy. Not only that, but it also focuses on careers that design, build, deliver, and maintain the systems.

Question 10

what are some jobs in Energy career cluster.

Answer 10

If you decide on a job in this cluster, you could find yourself working in a power plant, repairing energy equipment, or designing new energy-efficient products in an office. You may notice that careers in the Energy cluster relate a lot to other clusters too.

Question 11

Pathways in the Energy Cluster

Answer 11

Working as a renewable energy consultant isn’t the only career pathway in the Energy career cluster. What are some other pathways and jobs you may find in this cluster? Read on to see if there’s something you’d like to explore more!

Question 12

Environmental Resources Pathway

Answer 12

Working with environmental resources could mean working with natural resources or built resources. If you work with natural resources, you might be working as an environmental engineer or lawyer, a field researcher, or an environmental specialist. These jobs can take you all over, putting you in an office, out in the field conducting research, in a factory, or at a university! Working with the environment can be a rewarding job, as you can find ways to make our environment a better place to live. Study up for this career path, as you will most likely need a bachelor’s degree or higher to enter into it.

Working in the Environmental Resources pathway can mean additional schooling after high school.

Question 13

Energy and Power Technology Pathway

Answer 13

Remember back to those wind turbines we discussed earlier? Well, having a job working in creating and maintaining those giant energy efficient beasts would fall under this category! Wouldn’t it be a great feeling to look up at those slow-moving giants and realize that you hand a hand in not only creating them but also, that by doing so, you are helping to improve the environment? Working as a technician, or a similar job which falls under this category such as electrician, operator, etc., would put you possibly in an office, factory, or out in the field traveling to different locations.

Typically, to enter into a job such as this, you might need an apprenticeship, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or even a master’s degree, depending on how high up you would like to go within one of these pathways.

Electricians fall under the Energy and Power Technology pathway

Question 14

Telecommunications Pathway

Answer 14

Do you love to talk to your friends? Do you find it fascinating how we can have conversations with people halfway around the world? Going into telecommunications might be right up your alley! Careers in this pathway can range anywhere from installing phone or electronic communication equipment to helping to create it. This job will take you anywhere from an office to different locations that require traveling, as you help companies improve communication between people far and wide. To enter into this field, you will most likely need an associate degree or higher.

Maintaining telecommunications towers appears under the umbrella of the Telecommunications pathway.

Question 15

Health Science career cluster

Answer 15

The Health Science career cluster holds careers that promote health, wellness, and the diagnosis, as well as the treatment, of injuries and diseases. Within the Health Science cluster, the career of biotechnologist is nested under the Biotechnology Research and Development pathway. This pathway includes jobs involved in bioscience research in human health

Question 16

Pathways in the Health Science Cluster

Answer 16

When you were younger, kids probably always talked about being a “doctor” one day. What other additional jobs do you think fall under this category? There are several different career pathways you can follow and loads of different careers that fall under this large umbrella.

Question 17

Biotechnology Research and Development Pathway

Answer 17

The biotechnologist from our story will fall under this career pathway. Other careers such as medical scientists who study diseases fall into this one as well. Really, it covers anyone who uses research skills to understand health and disease! If you enjoy asking questions and trying to find answers, this may be the career path for you.

Biotechnology encompasses a large group of scientific professions in the Health Science Cluster.

Question 18

Diagnostic Services Pathway

Answer 18

Have you ever had an x-ray taken or had your blood drawn? Well, after those procedures, your x-rays or blood were transported to a medical professional who looked at them to make sure you were healthy. These professionals are in the diagnostic services pathway. To diagnose means to identify a health problem, and careers in this pathway include sonographers, radiology technicians, and surgical assistants.

Radiology technicians are part of the Diagnostic Services pathway.

Question 19

Health Informatics Pathway

Answer 19

This is the pathway for people who want to work in the health field but love technology and information. Did you know there are databases that connect the health information of patients so that doctors all across the country can view it in real time? Quite an undertaking if you ask me! Professionals in health informatics like medical secretaries, medical transcriptionists, and medical records technicians keep up with all of this data so that doctors can use it to make important decisions.

Medical receptionists provide valuable support services to patients and are under the umbrella of the Health Informatics pathway.

Question 20

Support Services Pathway

Answer 20

Like those in health informatics, support services careers in the Health Science field help doctors and other health providers do their jobs well. You might want to take a look at careers like a hospital orderly, phlebotomist, or pharmacy aide if this kind of behind-the-scenes work appeals to you. Jobs in this pathway can be a bit more entry-level, so they are a good place to look when you are just beginning your career!

A phlebotomist takes people’s blood to pass along to the lab for analysis and is part of the Support Services pathway.

Question 21

Therapeutic Services Pathway

Answer 21

When you think of “therapy,” you might imagine lying on a couch telling a stranger all of your deepest secrets—but really, this job (psychiatrist) is just one type of therapy in the health sector. Other careers include highly-skilled and highly-paid doctors like surgeons who need a medical degree and advanced training all the way to registered nurses, who can begin working with an associate degree. Other interesting careers in the pathway include art and music therapists. Who said arts and sciences can’t work together!

The rewarding career of nursing falls under the Therapeutic Services pathway.