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This tech professional builds the apps you use every day, and in 2026, they are still among the highest-paid roles in OC.
What is a Software Engineer?
This Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought a social media platform, renamed it "X," and is obsessed with reaching Mars.
Who is Elon Musk?
This 4.15-mile rail project is set to begin serving Santa Ana and Garden Grove in Spring 2026.
What is the OC Streetcar?
This "generative" technology helps you brainstorm essay ideas—but your teachers really hope you don't use it to cheat.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute in this 2012 dystopian hit that started a massive franchise.
What is The Hunger Games?
Ranked as the #1 job in 2026, these medical specialists perform tests to check the health of your "corazón."
What is a Cardiac Technician?
Known as the "King of YouTube" in 2026, this streamer broke records with his "Streamer University" and high-energy broadcasts.
Who is Kai Cenat?
If you don't want to drive, you might take this Metrolink line that stops at the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center.
What is the Orange County Line?
These "agents" are predicted to act as personal 24/7 tutors for students by the end of 2026.
What are AI Chatbots?
In this 2010 movie, Emma Stone plays a student who uses a "scarlet letter" to climb the social ladder.
What is Easy A?
With more people shopping online than ever, these "owner-operators" move goods across the I-5 and can earn over $160,000.
What are Truck Drivers?
"This businesswoman and socialite, whose ex-husbands include Kris Humphries & Kanye West, has made headlines for her business ventures and legal studies"
Who is Kim Kardashian?
This app-based service, founded by Travis Kalanick, revolutionized how high schoolers get rides to the Foothill High dance.
What is Uber?
This term refers to a 3D virtual world where you can work, play, and hang out using a VR headset.
What is the Metaverse?
This 2014 animated film featured a catchy song called "Everything Is Awesome."
What is The Lego Movie?
If you love math and predicting trends (like the next viral TikTok), you might thrive in this "scientific" data-crunching role.
What is a Data Scientist?
This Swedish activist started a global movement by skipping school to protest climate change outside the parliament.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
In 2026, OCTA is testing these "zero-emission" vehicles to help clean up the air in Santa Ana.
What are Hydrogen (or Electric) Buses?
In the future of "FinTech," these digital assets (like Bitcoin) might replace the cash in your wallet.
What is Cryptocurrency?
This 2017 "coming-of-age" film follows a rebellious girl navigating her senior year at a Catholic high school.
What is Lady Bird?
As California builds more eco-friendly homes, this trade professional is responsible for installing the panels that catch the sun's rays.
What is a Solar Photovoltaic Installer?
In 2023, he was briefly fired and then reinstated as CEO of this artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT.
Who is Sam Altman?
This historic railway right-of-way, once used by "Red Cars," is the exact path the new OC Streetcar will follow.
What is the Pacific Electric Right-of-Way?
This "superpower" skill is considered the most valuable for 2026: the ability to adapt and acquire new knowledge quickly.
What is Learning how to Learn?
This 2012 found-footage film features three high schoolers who gain telekinetic powers from a mysterious crater.
What is Chronicle?