In the real world, I’ve found that creativity, flexibility, critical thinking, and knowing how to learn are much more valuable skills than any one particular skill or knowledge set. In other words: problem solving. If you know how to analyze and attack a problem, you can figure out how to do anything. Convincing the people doing the hiring of this is another matter entirely, of course…anyway, there were a few extracurricular programs I had access to through my public school that helped me develop those skills, and I really think those experiences did more for me than anything else in or out of school.