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Family Resource Center

A place for families across Bay and Arenac counties to see what STEM careers in this region actually look like, and to start those conversations at home, in plain language.

Watch career videos together → Take a virtual tour → Mobile museum & STEM kits →

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Start with a career video

You do not need any equipment or preparation. Every video and tour on the hub is short, free, and made for someone who has never seen the job before. Watch one together and talk about what your kid noticed.

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Career videos from Bay-Arenac ISD

Seven short videos on how engineers think, why measurement matters, and what a manufacturing career actually involves. Each ends with questions worth asking at the dinner table.

Watch them →

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Meet people doing the job

Six career talks with a process engineer, a quality specialist, a millwright apprentice, and others, each one describing the path they took to get there.

Meet them →

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Go inside a real workplace

Eight virtual tours through hospitals, trade shops, road crews, a mill, and a wildlife refuge: the kinds of places you cannot usually walk into.

Take a tour →

Start exploring

Find resources for your family

Filter the resource library by grade, topic, and type. Search for a specific career, browse what peers are discovering, or follow a recommended starter set to jump in.

Search the family library →

A family member working with young children on a coding activity.