June Streckfus, Maryland Business Roundtable executive director, said she got the idea for BeWhatIWantToBe.com four years ago after reading a newspaper article about a Gates Foundation grant to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

The interactive Web site, launched in 2005, helps high school students explore various career possibilities and then chart the necessary steps in course selection, postgraduate technical training or college study to make their goal a reality.

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