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Career Explorations!

Career Clusters connect school work with the knowledge and skills needed for success in college and careers. Each Career Cluster identifies pathways from secondary school to two- and four-year colleges, graduate school, and the workplace. These videos will motivate students to work harder to achieve their career goals.

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Lyon Hill, Puppet Maker | Original SC Jim Victor, Abstract Artist | Original SC

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Jim Victor, Abstract Artist | Original SC
Jim Victor is an abstract painter living in Mt. Pleasant, SC. He started drawing and painting during his school years when he became intrigued by the works of the world's greatest artists. When a...
Zamboni | Eye Wonder Pit Crew | Eye Wonder

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Pit Crew | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team spends the day with a pit crew. D.V. learns about the physical challenges of working on a pit crew. He even gets to see a crew in action.
 Dance Studio | Artopia

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Dance Studio | Artopia
The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis offers a tour of her studio in...
 Video Process | Artopia

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Video Process | Artopia
Cameras are an important part of Weis’s work. Here, she explains the technology and process behind her work.
 Vet School | Eye Wonder

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Vet School | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team heads to vet school. D.V. heads to vet school to learn about the requirements to be a veterinarian and the sorts of things vet students learn in order to care for animals.
 School Bus Manufacturing | Eye Wonder

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School Bus Manufacturing | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team visits a school bus manufacturing plant. D.V. looks at how each part is put together and how safety is always considered.
 Influence of the Family | Artopia

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Influence of the Family | Artopia
Wagoner’s family provided him with a stable anchor that helped him go forward and explore his passion.
Aircraft | Eye Wonder Paper | Eye Wonder

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Paper | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team learns how paper is made.
 Teamwork | Artopia

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Teamwork | Artopia
Weis explains how she decides who to work with and how to make the most out of every collaborator’s individual strengths.
 Dan Wagoner: History | Artopia

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Dan Wagoner: History | Artopia
Wagoner explains his personal history with dance, which began when he was a young boy in West Virginia.
 Library | Eye Wonder

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Library | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team explores a library. D.V. visits the Richland Library and learns about the importance of cataloguing and organization, and how the Dewey Decimal System works.
Aquarium | Eye Wonder Penguins | Eye Wonder

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Penguins | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team learns more about penguins. D.V. visits a penguin exhibit where he learns about the proper education to care for penguins, how penguins are kept in zoos, as well as penguins' diet...
Aircraft | Eye Wonder Sewage Treatment | Eye Wonder

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Sewage Treatment | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team investigates how sewage is treated. D.V. visits a treatment plant and learns how the water is purified through several treatments and during one treatment, the water is cleaned...
Emergency Room | Eye Wonder Ophthalmologist | Eye Wonder

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Ophthalmologist | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team looks at the career of an ophthalmologist. D.V. goes to an eye exam and learns about the differences between an optometrist and an ophthalmologist.
 Start a Dance | Artopia

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Start a Dance | Artopia
Dan Wagoner encourages young people to explore dancing by studying movements and the anatomy of the body.
 Success | Artopia

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Success | Artopia
The work of Guggenheim Fellow and Bessie Award winner Cathy Weis centers on a choreographic process that fully integrates dance with sound, design and technology. Weis thinks of unsuccessful...
Dan Wagoner: History | Artopia Art and Physics | Artopia

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Art and Physics | Artopia
Wagoner describes Leonard Shlain’s theory of art and physics and how it relates to his own work.
Aircraft | Eye Wonder Nuclear Power | Eye Wonder

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Nuclear Power | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team learns how nuclear power operates. D.V. visits Duke Power plant where he sees the necessary equipment and technology in the energy process, and how nuclear fission, or the...
Goat Farm | Eye Wonder Seeds | Eye Wonder

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Seeds | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team explores how seeds are harvested. D.V. visits Park Seed Farm where he learns seeds come from the female part of the plant and all about the pollination process.
 Pasta Factory | Eye Wonder

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Pasta Factory | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team finds out how pasta is made. D.V. visits a pasta factory where he learns how wheat is separated and purified to make pasta, and how a computer runs many factory operations.
Aircraft | Eye Wonder Oceanography | Eye Wonder

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Oceanography | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team discovers oceanography. D.V. visits an oceanographer who explains why the sea is "salty" and the scientific study of the ocean.
Goat Farm | Eye Wonder Quarry | Eye Wonder

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Quarry | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team investigates a quarry. D.V. visits a quarry and learns it is where valuable minerals and stones are mined and extracted for use in construction.
 Movie Theater | Eye Wonder

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Movie Theater | Eye Wonder
The Eye Wonder team investigates a movie theater. D.V. goes behind the scenes to see how film is loaded and rolled, and all of the different equipment that brings a movie to the screen.