Being a genetic counselor is a potential job. In this project, the class had to research a specific genetic disorder and the teachers pretended to be the couple who wanted to have children. I had sickle-cell anemia and after I performed all of my research about the topic, I had to act as a genetic counselor and counsel one of the teachers. In this project, we had to create a pedigree, which is a tool that shows a trait that may or may not be passed down in a family, and a punnet square, which is a tool used to see the potential offspring of parents. This activity can help me if I choose a career in genetic counseling or another field that looks at genes and traits. I discovered during this project that I am actually very good at determining the genes and producing the pedigrees. While some students struggled in this project, it came easily and flowed for me. This project relates to Standard 1-READING: Word Recognition, Fluency, and Vocabulary Development because throughout this project, we constantly had to learn new words such as "homozygous," "heterozygous," and "recessive." This project shows the demonstration of the biology standards in the above note because we integrated all of the standards in the project. Not only did we have to know the information, but we also had to talk about it to the teacher, face-to-face. The skills it took to complete this project can be used in a potential career. The quality of my work is usually average, but I noticed I excelled a lot in this activity. Not only did I have all of the components I needed, but I also knew about the disease I studied and was able to go into detail while explaining it. Instead of getting behind and being off task during this project some of the time, I could have made a personal agenda and kept myself on top of the project and on task. I will keep my success of this project in mind because I may have a career in this field ahead of me.

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