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Career Connections Pathways Program (Robonation)

Provided By
RoboNation

Career Connections Pathways focuses on career exploration for students highlighting the academic and training opportunities required to pursue various STEM fields and related interests. Starting with remotely operated vehicle (ROV) educational content, this program includes resources focused on content, skills, and careers related to the areas of autonomous subsystems, programming/coding, core enabling technology development, systems engineering, and project management.

Logic Model

Program Activities

Students

  • Learn STEM technical skills as they apply scientific principles to solve real-world underwater challenges​ 
  • Engage in real-world underwater ROV applications related to STEM careers (research, defense, marine biology, energy, search-and-rescue)​

Program Near-Term Outcomes

Students

  • Increase awareness of STEM career pathways 
  • Gain skills for using tools and building devices related to trade and technical career pathways 
  • Understand the roles of research and innovation through the engineering design process.

DSEC Near-Term Outcomes

Students

  • Increased participant STEM competencies (skills, knowledge, abilities, and confidence) 
  • Increased participant awareness of, and interest in, DoW STEM research and career
Participant Perspectives

Participant perspectives reflect survey responses from 2025-2026, the first year of survey administration.

Of 5,878 student participants, 37 responded to the survey.

Students

Grades 6-16

  • Disagree
  • Slightly Agree
  • Moderately Agree
  • Strongly Agree
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained skills in planning, building, and testing engineering projects (ex: ROV).
n = 37 valid responses
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained skills in time management.
n = 37 valid responses
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained skills in teamwork.
n = 37 valid responses
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained skills in leadership.
n = 37 valid responses
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained skills in communication.
n = 37 valid responses
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained an understanding of the engineering design process.
n = 37 valid responses
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained an understanding of the importance of background research.
n = 37 valid responses
In Career Connections Pathways, I gained an understanding of the importance of data-driven design decision-making.
n = 37 valid responses
Career Connections Pathways increased my awareness of the variety of jobs and careers in STEM. 
n = 36 valid responses
Career Connections Pathways increased my awareness of the variety of jobs and careers in STEM in the military/Department of War. This could include, for example, working as a civilian in the Department of War.
n = 34 valid responses
Program Data

Participant data for Career Connections Pathways is reported under Robonation's SeaPerch program.

Other programs from Partner
SeaPerch (RoboNation)