Children are often asked what they want to be when they grow up. In Hall County, a group of high school students was asked that and then given the opportunity to do it.

The Hall County Honors Mentorship Program each year allows students to work with mentors in the business community to learn about a field they choose.

"The students get the opportunity to go in and work one-on-one with a professional in their chosen career field and really see what this career field they think they're interested in is truly all about," said Jennifer Killingsworth, the program's south end coordinator. "Not the perception, not the glamorous side, not what you see on TV, but honestly what it's all about."

Projects lined the walls of a room at The Oaks at Lanier Charter Career Academy off Atlanta Highway.

Laptops showed off websites the students had created, posters and brochures presented more information and students shared their passion with anyone who stopped by.

"I really want to go into architecture," said Rebecca Robinson, a junior at Chestatee High School who worked with Gainesville-based America's Home Place. "I love looking at buildings and how they're all different ... just how you get to create something."

Robinson had never been in a drafting class but was given an architectural markup, tweaked it a bit and created a new house floor plan called the Azalea.

A few tables down, Taylor Towe, a junior at West Hall High School, shared about teaching elementary school.

She worked at Chicopee Woods Elementary School and the World Language Academy and tested children in grades kindergarten through fifth to compare their performance. The project confirmed for her that she wants to work with children.

"Seeing their faces when they actually understood it, the click, it's just like a sudden click when they understand something new," she said.

Projects varied greatly as students' interests differed, Killingsworth said.

One project looked at psychopaths. Sabrina Canup looked at how the court system handles psychopaths and her partner, Austin Hicks, looked at what goes on in the brain of a psychopath. Canup wants to study criminal law and Hicks wants to go into orthopedics; both are juniors at Johnson High School.

Getting into the field taught Canup more than just the basics of how to be a lawyer, though.

"I was scared that my faith was going to kind of contradict my whole profession," she said. "But when I started interning with Mr. Sonny Sykes at this law firm I realized there's actually a lot of faith that goes into being a lawyer."

Some students go through the program and realize the field is not right for them, but for many, it gives them even more drive for the area they've chosen.

Kristoffer Leon, a senior at Flowery Branch High School, studied brain tumors with William Thomas, a pathologist at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.

"It's really fun to be able to actually go out and work in the respective field that you want to go into," he said.

He's still not exactly sure what kind of doctor he wants to be, but he'll be attending Emory University in the fall, majoring in chemistry and computer science, with a pre-medical track.