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Coding career guide for high school students — Champaign, IL

Coding career guide by personality and purpose — for high school students

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What the assessment measures

280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.

Coding career guide for high school students. A guide grounded in measurement instead of opinion: forty careers with the traits each runs on, what the work is worth to the world, the education path, and a way to find out which are yours. A coding career runs on persistence through hours of troubleshooting and abstract thinking about systems you cannot see. The assessment measures both directly — before you spend a year learning to find out. High school is early enough to choose classes and late enough that a working style is already visible.

Careers the Champaign, IL economy leans on

6 counties across Illinois; 4 metro. Economies: 1 government and 1 farming. Flags: 3 population loss and 1 housing stress.

Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Web Developer+7%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Computer Programmer-6%

Counties in this labor market

Champaign County, ILDe Witt County, ILFord County, ILLivingston County, ILMcLean County, ILPiatt County, IL

Metros around Champaign, IL

Chicago, IL11 countiesSt. Louis, MO12 countiesDavenport, IA–IL7 countiesPeoria, IL8 countiesRockford, IL7 countiesEvansville, IN10 countiesLafayette, IN9 countiesSpringfield, IL10 countiesTerre Haute, IN8 countiesKankakee, IL2 countiesPaducah, KY–IL12 countiesDubuque, IA–IL5 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "coding career guide for high school students" different from a personality type test?

A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.

Does it cost anything?

No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.