Our mission is to enhance and expand STEM-rich opportunities in Tampa Bay for teachers, students, families, and stakeholders.
Together, we are Building a Better Tampa Bay.
FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS
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Cultivating Cross-Sector Partnerships
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Creating and Connecting STEM-Rich Learning Environments
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Equipping STEM Educators
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Supporting Youth Pathways
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GOALS
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Develop a strong network of academic, business, and community partners who are invested in providing opportunities for school-aged children in Tampa Bay that is both effective and sustainable.
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Support excellence in STEM teaching. Increase the number of historically underrepresented young people in STEM pathways.
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Engage parents in the Tampa Bay community through effective communication, parent-centric events, workshops, and other means to become familiar with the STEM field and to support their children in STEM education and STEM career pathways.
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Create diverse conduits of access to intersecting STEM experiences for school-aged youth through out-of-school time experiences.
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WHEN IT COMES TO STEM LEARNING, HOW CAN WE HELP ALL YOUNG PEOPLE REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL?
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STEM Learning Ecosystems provide the architecture for cross-sector learning, offering all young people access to STEM-rich learning environments so they can develop important skills and engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math throughout Pre K-16.
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Strong STEM Learning Ecosystems feature dynamic collaborations among schools, out-of-school time programs, STEM expert institutions (such as museums, science centers, institutions of higher education and STEM professional associations), the private sector, community-based organizations, youth, and families.
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