Stop Chasing Every Opportunity. Find the Right Ones for Your Student.

Research programs. Internships. Competitions. Awards. Summer programs. Fellowships.

There is no shortage of opportunities for ambitious high school students.

The harder part is figuring out which ones are actually worth pursuing.

A prestigious program may sound impressive and still be completely wrong for your student. An internship might take up an entire summer without giving them meaningful work. And applying to ten random opportunities is not necessarily better than finding one that builds directly on something your student already cares about.

At this event, we’ll show you how to be much more strategic about where your student spends their time.

You’ll get a live look at The FlightPlan’s opportunity search and show you how it finds opportunities based on a student’s interests, experience, grade level, goals, and current projects.

We’ll share how to:

• Find research, internships, competitions, publications, awards, grants, and summer programs
• Go beyond the same generic lists every family is searching
• Separate substantive opportunities from expensive résumé filler
• Find meaningful options for 9th, 10th, and 11th graders, not just rising seniors
• Match an existing project with a relevant competition, journal, conference, or award
• Understand whether your student is a realistic candidate
• Identify what they could do now to become more competitive later
• Keep track of deadlines and next steps

We’ll also talk about what makes an opportunity a good fit in the first place.

A student interested in biomechanics after a sports injury should be looking at something very different from a student who loves political writing, builds rockets, studies machine learning, or wants to start a business.

The point is not to collect impressive names.

The right opportunity should give your student somewhere meaningful to take what they are already doing.

Curious Cardinals students have used opportunities like these to publish research, win major competitions, present work to NASA, earn recognition for their writing, and bring ambitious projects into the real world.

By the end of the event, you’ll know how to evaluate opportunities more thoughtfully and how The FlightPlan can help your student find the ones that are actually worth pursuing.

Your student does not need every opportunity. They need the right next one.