2025 Work Simulation Competition
2025 Work Simulation Competition
Burn and Learn Candle Company
Gallatin County High School
Warsaw, Kentucky
9-12th and 18-21 (Moderate to Severe Disabilities Classroom)
Burn and Learn Candle Company provides students with the opportunity to build crucial workplace skills while learning to manage a small business. Students take part in every stage of the candle-making process, from designing candles and wax melts to delivering the final products to customers. Along the way, they gain hands-on experience in areas like inventory management, working with heat sources, selecting dyes and scents, repurposing materials like jars, and handling money. Through teamwork and collaboration on seasonal designs, students not only boost their creativity but also enhance their business knowledge, communication, and workplace readiness.
About the Digitability Work Simulation Program
Digitability believes that skills are best learned through real-world experience and application. That’s why Digitability created the Work Simulation Program: a complete curriculum that teaches work-ready skills in a hands-on way you won’t find anywhere else.
After choosing their classroom’s Work Simulation project, students are “hired” for jobs and begin practicing workplace behavior, managing tasks, using tech skills for independence, self-advocating, self-regulating and more.
Digitability Work Simulations include Bankability, a virtual banking and workplace behavior program where students earn virtual dollars when they exhibit behaviors that will make them successful in the workplace and increase their independence. Using those dollars earned, students experience a modern banking app while learning the fundamentals of budgeting concepts such as earning, spending, and saving.
For more information about how you can bring Digitability’s award-winning program to your school or organization and join in with a Work Simulation Project of your own, click here.