Innovation + Connection: The Power of Regional Partnership

Ten regional Networks bring educators, business leaders, STEM professionals, and community leaders together to build student success and connect them with STEM career opportunities in their communities.

Innovation + Connection: The Power of Regional Partnership

Ten regional Networks bring educators, business leaders, STEM professionals, and community leaders together to build student success and connect them with STEM career opportunities in their communities.
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.

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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

Networks work with Washington STEM to determine focus areas, those critical junctures where Washington STEM can have the most impact on student lives.

Foster Innovation

Networks help Washington STEM evaluate best practices that inform STEM reports, policy change, and scalable programs.
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.”
STEM STORIES See All Stories
Maximum Representation: A call for inclusive data reporting
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.
K-12
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Apr 02, 2024
Life of the Data Bit: How Data Informs Education Policy
Here at Washington STEM, we rely on data that are publicly available. But how do we know they are reliable? In this blog, we’ll look how we source and validate the data used in our reports and dashboards.
Our Work
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Sep 29, 2023
STEM + CTE: Mutually reinforcing paths to success
Career technical education and STEM: both offer hands-on problem-solving, inquiry-based learning, and lead to challenging, in-demand careers. So why are they sometimes at odds? Let me tell you why--and how we are bringing them together.
Career Pathways
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Oct 29, 2023
After-school STEM program builds on Indigenous knowledge
When an after-school program serving a small, rural community in the Columbia Gorge saw an influx of Tribal students, educators saw an opportunity — to integrate indigenous knowledge into STEM education.
K-12
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Jan 08, 2024
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