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An Ecosystems Approach To Building The STEM Talent Pipeline

Bridget Burger

Presentation at The Stone Soup Leadership Institute’s 15th 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

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: Annual STEM Design Challenge

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:

Sisters in STEM events Vex Robotics competitions Blue Economy design challenges Blue Economy coding challenges: MolaMola App STEM educator 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