2025 Work Simulation Competition
2025 Work Simulation Competition
HORISON - (Helping Others Reach Independent Successful Opportunities Now)
John P Stevens High Schools
Edison, NJ
Self-contained Career and Vocational 9th-12th high school & 18-21 transition program
We operate a vocational workshop within our facility, which includes a variety of functional areas designed to provide hands-on learning experiences. These include a supply room (similar to a Staples), a grocery store, a workshop setting for assembling and disassembling items, an office environment equipped with a copy machine, laminating, shredding, data entry, order processing, and mail sorting services. Additionally, we manage a Lost & Found online store, where students can browse for misplaced items, submit claims, and arrange for pickup directly from our room. Additionally, our students shop for and work a "Snack Shack," selling drinks and snacks to their peers. All of these services and resources are digitally accessible through my class website. Our transition program, designed for students aged 18-21, incorporates work-based learning opportunities to help prepare them for future employment. Students gain valuable hands-on experience through job sampling at various local businesses, including the Edison Municipal Complex, a preschool, Pizza Hut, Shopper's World, DSW, and by managing our on-campus thrift shop and pantry. These experiences are integral to developing practical skills and fostering independence in the workplace.
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.