Innovation + Connection: The Power of Regional Partnership

We strengthen the statewide education and career readiness ecosystem by engaging with regional leaders to create and deliver STEM programs and career-connected learning opportunities for students.

Innovation + Connection: The Power of Regional Partnership

We strengthen the statewide education and career readiness ecosystem by engaging with regional leaders to create and deliver STEM programs and career-connected learning opportunities for students.
Learn more about regional networks

Click on the yellow dots to see what’s happening in each region.

Learn more about regional networks

Click on the yellow dots to see what’s happening in each region.

Learn more
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What do STEM Networks do?
 

Lead Locally

Networks are made up of STEM innovators, those organizations and individuals with the greatest potential to make a positive impact on STEM education.


Share Ideas

Washington STEM works with local leaders to support regional networks across the state. Originally oriented around building awareness of STEM, regional networks today remain grounded in STEM as a means to drive equitable improvements in education and workforce systems. Led by boundary-spanning leaders, regional networks bring educators, business leaders, STEM professionals, and community members together to support students’ success and connect them with STEM career opportunities. See the map below for network contacts and backbone organizations.


Foster Innovation

Networks drive change in their regions by:

  • Bringing together education, business, and community leaders to identify and solve regional problems.
  • Helping local education and industry partners understand data.
  • Representing and amplifying local and regional voices in statewide conversations, including with policymakers.


STEM IN ACTION
Driving Impact Across the State
"The STEM Networks are key drivers in developing local solutions to STEM education in their communities. Through shared learning and open dialogue, they help scale breakthrough solutions that benefit all students in Washington.”
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Washington STEM is joining Native education experts from across the state to support Maximum Representation – an effort to fully represent multiracial/multiethnic students in data sets and solve the interlocking problems of undercounted Native students and underfunded Native education.
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After-school STEM program builds on Indigenous knowledge
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