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

Cultivating Cross-Sector Partnerships
Creating and Connecting STEM-Rich Learning Environments
Equipping STEM Educators
Supporting Youth Pathways

GOALS

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.
Support excellence in STEM teaching. Increase the number of historically underrepresented young people in STEM pathways.
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.
Create diverse conduits of access to intersecting STEM experiences for school-aged youth through out-of-school time experiences.

WHEN IT COMES TO STEM LEARNING, HOW CAN WE HELP ALL YOUNG PEOPLE REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL?

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.

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.