An Ecosystems Approach To Building The STEM Talent Pipeline Bridget Burger Presentation at The Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s 15 th Youth Leadership Summit for Sustainable Development June 22-28, 2019
The Need According to the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (2013): “Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education is a critical component to developing a globally competitive workforce. Business leaders across industries agree: investing to ensure a pipeline of workers skilled in STEM competencies is a workforce issue, and economic development issue, and a business imperative” STEM job projections : http://www.csg.org/pubs/capitolideas/2015_sept_oct/bythebook.aspx
Cape Cod Regional STEM Network named to STEM Ecosystems initiative. What is a STEM Ecosystem?
Our Mission: “To be an inspiration hub for tomorrow’s innovators.” Our focus areas: ▶ Teacher Professional Development ▶ Provide resources, information, and events ▶ STEM program development and evaluation ▶ Increase equity and access in STEM
Who We Are And What We Do ▶ 85 partner organizations and 700+ individuals ▶ Hosted at Cape Cod Community College ▶ Program highlights: ▶ K-12 STEM Educator Institute ▶ Teacher Resource Library: “The Education Station” ▶ Annual STEM Design challenges ▶ Teacher-In-Residence Externships ▶ STEM Week: October 21-25, 2019 ▶ WaterWORKS Blue Economy Career Exploration Jan 7, 2020
Program highlight: The Education Station: Free K-12 STEM teacher resources
Program highlight: Annual STEM Design Challenge The Cape Cod Cardboard Challenge is in full swing! Students are collaborating to design and build arcade games out of cardboard. This could be a claw machine, ski-ball, basketball hoops and whatever they can imagine! Three winning teams will receive one free field trip to Wackenhammer's Arcade STEAMuseum for their class and a suitable number of chaperones (travel fees are included) Cape Cod Cardboard Challenge entries are due March 1st ! Start your entries today!
Program highlight: Teacher-in-Residence Externships Pairs K-12 educators with companies and institutions to develop regionally-relevant high-quality STEM curriculum units.
Teacher-in-Residence Externship sites:
Blue Economy coding Sisters in STEM events challenges: MolaMola App Blue Economy design STEM educator Vex Robotics competitions challenges workshops
Program Highlight: Vex Robotics Comes To Cape Cod! 23 new teams started in 2019 through a regional grant from REC Foundation
Focus on equity in STEM: Sisters in STEM! An evening of hands-on STEM challenges for middle school girls, with mentors from 500 Women Scientists.
2nd Annual CAPE-REGION BLUE ECONOMY CAREER DAY Are you a business, organization, or institution shaping the water-based Blue Economy? Invest in the workforce of the future the work you are doing at WaterWORKS, a hands-on career day connecting high school students to Blue Economy career opportunities in our region. When: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 (Snow date January 14th) Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm, Lunch provided Where: Cape Cod Community College Campus, West Barnstable
Join us in inspiring tomorrow’s innovators! Vex Robotics competitions
Contact Bridget Burger Director, Cape Cod Regional STEM Network director@capecodstemnetwork.org (508) 362-2131 x 4459
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