Meet the iLevelUP Trail Guides
iLevelUP Trail Guides for College, Careers, Money, Confidence, and Life Skills
The iLevelUP Trail Guides are student-friendly characters that make future-readiness topics easier to explore. Each guide focuses on a practical area students can revisit with educators, mentors, families, and community partners.
Choose a Trail Guide and Start Exploring
Each guide supports a different part of future readiness. Open a guide below to see the resources, reflection prompts, and next steps they help students practice.
Personal Guide
Career Scout
Treasure Hunt
Alpine Activity
Peak Pursuit
Ridge Readiness
Summit Success
Trekker the Yak:Your Personal Growth Guide
“Confidence grows one step at a time. Start where you are and keep moving.”
Trekker helps students build confidence, reflect on their strengths, set realistic goals, and practice habits that support school, work, and life.
What this guide helps students practice:
Confidence-building activities that help students name strengths and next steps
Stress-management and planning habits students can use before big decisions
Time-management tools for school, work, applications, and daily routines
Healthy routines that support learning, focus, and follow-through
Use Trekker to build confidence and choose a next step that feels doable.
WHEN TREKKER HELPS:
Use Trekker when students feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. Trekker breaks big goals into smaller next steps and helps students notice the strengths they already have.
“Confidence grows one step at a time. Start where you are and keep moving.”
Trekker helps students build confidence, reflect on their strengths, set realistic goals, and practice habits that support school, work, and life.
What this guide helps students practice:
Confidence-building activities that help students name strengths and next steps
Stress-management and planning habits students can use before big decisions
Time-management tools for school, work, applications, and daily routines
Healthy routines that support learning, focus, and follow-through
Use Trekker to build confidence and choose a next step that feels doable.
WHEN TREKKER HELPS:
Use Trekker when students feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin. Trekker breaks big goals into smaller next steps and helps students notice the strengths they already have.
“Your future can have more than one path. Canyon helps you compare the options.”
Canyon helps students explore career interests, connect strengths to real pathways, and learn what different jobs, credentials, and industries may require.
What this guide helps students practice:
Career-interest activities that help students notice what they enjoy and do well
Job, industry, and salary exploration using credible career information
Major and program exploration connected to possible future goals
Goal-setting prompts that turn career ideas into practical next steps
Use Canyon to explore career options and connect interests to possible pathways.
WHEN CANYON HELPS:
Use Canyon when students feel unsure about career direction, college majors, job options, credentials, or how their strengths might connect to future opportunities.
“Paying for education is easier to understand when the steps are clear.”
Cash helps students learn FAFSA basics, scholarship search habits, college-cost terms, and money skills they can use before and after graduation.
What this guide helps students practice:
Scholarship-search steps, deadlines, and application planning
FAFSA and financial-aid basics explained in plain language
Essay and short-answer planning tips for scholarship applications
Budgeting basics for school, work, transportation, and everyday choices
Use Cash to understand financial-aid basics, scholarships, and money habits.
WHEN CASH HELPS:
Use Cash when students are trying to understand financial aid, look for scholarships, compare costs, or build money habits that make future plans feel less intimidating.
“The activities students choose can help them discover who they are becoming.”
Taiga helps students explore extracurriculars, service, sports, hobbies, arts, faith-based groups, part-time jobs, and leadership opportunities that fit their interests.
What this guide helps students practice:
Activity exploration that helps students find options that match their interests
Leadership, service, and volunteer ideas students can try locally
Ways to turn interests, responsibilities, and part-time work into growth stories
Reflection prompts for explaining activities in applications and interviews
Use Taiga to get involved and connect activities to future goals.
WHEN TAIGA HELPS:
Use Taiga when students want to get involved, try something new, build leadership experience, or explain how activities outside class connect to their future goals.
“College planning gets easier when students can see the path step by step.”
Crag helps students explore college options, compare programs, understand admissions steps, and plan next actions with support from trusted adults.
What this guide helps students practice:
College-search steps that compare fit, cost, location, and support
Admissions and application planning broken into manageable tasks
Questions students can ask counselors, mentors, families, and colleges
Ways to compare two-year, four-year, certificate, and training pathways
Use Crag to make college planning clearer and easier to discuss.
WHEN CRAG HELPS:
Use Crag when students are comparing schools, learning application steps, preparing questions, or deciding which education pathway might fit their goals.
“Future-ready skills are built by practicing small, useful steps.”
Carver helps students practice resumes, interviews, workplace habits, communication, and planning skills that support jobs, internships, and volunteer roles.
What this guide helps students practice:
Resume and experience-building prompts students can update over time
Interview preparation and practice questions for common situations
Workplace communication, follow-through, and problem-solving habits
Planning steps for jobs, internships, volunteering, and career exposure
Use Carver to practice the skills students need for work and opportunity.
WHEN CARVER HELPS:
Use Carver when students are preparing for a job, internship, volunteer role, interview, resume update, or first step into a workplace setting.
“Strong study habits help students feel more prepared for the climb ahead.”
Machu helps students build study routines, test-prep habits, organization systems, and reflection strategies that support learning and follow-through.
What this guide helps students practice:
Study routines students can adapt for classes, exams, and projects
Organization and planning habits that reduce last-minute stress
Test-prep strategies for reviewing, practicing, and asking for help
Reflection prompts that help students notice what is working
Use Machu to build practical study habits and prepare with more confidence.
WHEN MACHU HELPS:
Use Machu when students need help organizing assignments, preparing for exams, building study routines, or following through on school goals.
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(Free resources students can revisit and share.)