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Workforce Planning to Fill the STEM Jobs Pipeline
May 2, 2012 – 2PM EST
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STEMconnector™ responds to the demand from the community working in STEM Education and workforce development for increased connectivity between entities improving our STEM-skilled workforce. Our mission is to provide information and resources that increase communication, encourage collaboration and promote sustainable and replicable approaches to STEM education interventions. By pursuing this mission we aim to realize efficiency gains through eliminating duplication and quality improvement by sharing best practices. Accomplishing these ambitious goals requires that we leverage our collective experience and that of our partners to develop innovative communications and products that reach diverse audiences in impactful and meaningful ways.
Tools and Resources
 | STEMconnector.org — The site that you are currently visiting is itself one of our main tools in promoting connectivity. Officially launched in November 2011, the STEMconnector™ Directory contains over 3500 profiles of stakeholders in STEM Education and mapping the STEM Education activity of all 50 States and the District of Columbia. Through careful research, we identified these entities and mapped their roles in an intensive 6-month process. We then embedded the fruits of our research into a searchable online database. Since the launch, response has been impressive as hundreds of new organizations have been added to the database and we continue to improve and update existing content in collaboration with the listed entities. The STEMconnector™ Database has given us a tool to establish partnerships with a broad cross section of organizations working in STEM Education to increase our reach and connectivity in regions through working relationships. | |
 | STEMdaily™ — The newest addition to the STEMconnector™ Toolbox, STEMdaily™ is a daily news feed that we send free of charge to subscribers. Content comes from a variety of sources: major news outlets, business wires, blogs and affiliate submissions. We are marketing this product to the entire STEM Education community. STEMdaily™'s aim is to connect the STEM Education by providing reliable and relevant news to a broad audience of stakeholders involved in STEM Education. The newsletter provides summaries of 10-15 stories across 10 different categories with links to the original content in an easy-to-read format. To subscribe click here. | |
 | STEM Council — On May 8th, 2012 STEMconnector™ will convene the first STEM Council meeting comprised of representatives from member companies and organizations within the STEMconnector™ network. The aim of the STEM Council Meeting is to lay the foundation for companies to establish internal structures to develop holistic STEM Education Strategies that conform to corporate objectives and strategy. Much like diversity councils serve as organizing structures around the principle of diversity, STEM Councils will bring together different perspectives on workforce needs and community involvement from normally unconnected sectors. Leadership from an executive committee member will be critical in order to ensure that STEM Councils have the resources in order to affect organizational change. | |
 | TownHall— In the fall of 2011, STEMconnector™ held conference calls on critical STEM issues: Women in STEM and STEM and Jobs in the lead-up to our launch on November 30. The objective of these calls was to convene voices from across the stakeholder community to present perspectives from industry, government, education and non-profits working on these issues. We will continue these calls in 2012 focusing on timely and high profile issues relating to STEM Education and Workforce Development. Like the previous calls, the TownHall will convene high-level decision-makers within organizations across the public, private, academic and non-profit sectors with the aim of informing and connecting stakeholders by establishing common goals and patterns of excellence. On May 2nd 2012, we will hold our inaugural STEMconnector™ Town Hall via Webex focusing on "Workforce Planning and Filling the STEM Jobs Pipeline." Click Here for more details. | |
Projects
 | 100 Women Leaders in STEM — STEMconnector™ is committed to increasing the number of women that enter STEM Fields believing that achieving population proportional representation of women in STEM fields hold the promise of increasing the quality of our talent and numbers. We are currently compiling a volume of 100 Women Leaders from across Corporations, Non-Profits and Government. On June 28th at the U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference, we will release the names of these amazing women in a bound volume as well as on our website complete with biographies and interviews. By celebrating these women, our goal is to provide aspiring young women and young female professionals with tangible examples of successful women in STEM fields. Click Here for more details. | |
 | US News STEM Solutions Conference — Along with our partners Innovate+Education and U.S. News, we are co-presenting the first annual U.S. News STEM Solutions Conference in Dallas on June 27-29, 2012. Keeping true to the STEMconnector™ Mission, the Conference will be the first of its kind to bring together stakeholders from across the spectrum of STEM Education to discuss how to improve communication across the larger issues of supply, demand, metrics, policy and communications. The conference will generate proceedings that will serve as reference materials and guideposts moving forward. Click Here for more details | |
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