*Education and Entrepreneurship in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art/design, and Mathematics
Welcome to VEN, Vermont's ESTEAM Network.
We recognize the imperative of integrating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) into Education and Entrepreneurship. Our plan is to steadily build "E-STEAM" to ensure Vermont's and our country's success.
We also embrace the "TEAM" aspect of our acronym. Hence, we are the TEAM formed by all Vermont’s participants in STEM Education and Entrepreneurship, including the visitors to this site.
VEN TEAM Vision
We envision a Vermont where all STEM participants have synergistically converged to participate in an inspired STEM community.
We will realize this vision by accomplishing three goals:
1) exhaustively identifying all the STEM resources in Vermont (as well as selected regional and national resources)
2) organizing these resources in a thoughtful manner so that a sought resource can be found in two or three clicks.
3) actively engaging all of them in mutual awareness, promotion, and reliance.
Reaching the first two goals begins here:
STEM resources curated into major categories:
Academic Programs (primary and secondary)
Academic Programs (post secondary)
Advocacy Groups
Career-Employment Opportunities (including trade schools)
Benefits of this Network:
- Provides easy access to all resources so none is missed by inquiring parties,
- Dramatically increases awareness of extent and variety of STEM resources available in the state,
- Results in increased enthusiasm for ESTEAM in Vermont,
- Results in increased likelihood people will remain in Vermont for education and employment,
- Provides an efficient way to find needed resources in the state and thus keep our money in Vermont,
- Eliminates reinvention of the wheel,
- Identifies genuine gaps in coverage,
- Identifies appropriate stakeholders,
- Avoids the need to independently obtain contact information for stakeholders,
- Provides opportunity for similar stakeholders to pool their resources (efficient networking),
- Provides a way for networking to lead to support/financing/grants,
- Enables a pooling of stakeholders to produce a POWERFUL lobbying body,
- Provides a way for new employees in the state to rapidly learn the resources available.
- Ensures a guidance counselor/teacher/student/parent would have a one-stop resource to find the program that best fits the unique ESTEAM interests of the student,
- Schedules competitions so that competitors will not have to choose between two applicable competitions,
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