Summer ‘25

About Quest Treks 🔎

Quest Treks, a Cambiar Education initiative, empowers high school students with hands-on career exploration, AI-powered reflection, and effective action planning. With a value for equity in educational systems, the mission is to equip every student with the tools, confidence, and guidance to navigate meaningful and informed career paths.

Project Objective 🌟

Students often face an overwhelming amount of career information but lack personalized guidance, especially with the national ratio of 1 counselor for every 376 students. This leaves many students unprepared to make informed college or career decisions.

Students want to make informed college and career decisions, but it is hard because:

  1. They are flooded with career information without personalized guidance to make sense of it
  2. Limited access to counselors leaves little time for individualized career planning
  3. Existing exploration activities often lack clear connections to real-world opportunities or actionable next steps.

Quest Treks needed a scalable way to provide personalized career guidance that goes beyond static information, helping students connect their interests to real-world opportunities and take concrete actions toward their goals despite limited counselor availability.

To address the needs of stakeholders, we created a flexible web platform that pairs immersive career simulations with AI-powered reflection tools. This approach helps students explore careers, reflect on their fit, and receive tailored action plans.

Functional Requirements

The final design consists of 5 key components: