2025 Work Simulation Competition
2025 Work Simulation Competition
Ruth Batson Academy Coffee Cart
Ruth Batson Academy
Boston, Massachusetts
18-21 Transition
The Ruth Batson Academy Coffee Cart project offers students a hands-on work simulation where they bake sweet treats and serve beverages such as coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and hot cider to staff members twice a week. Students use a Keurig machine and an electric tea kettle to prepare hot drinks, and they also make iced coffee. As they deliver their treats to staff, students practice important financial skills by informing staff of the total amount due, collecting payment, counting money, and providing change. Each student works on the tasks they excel at, gradually advancing to more complex responsibilities. Students with the greatest need for support begin by learning to operate the Keurig machine, following simple 3-step directions, while more experienced students develop skills in customizing drinks with cream, milk, syrups, and sugar. This project helps students build essential workplace skills in a supportive, real-world setting.
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.