Business Engagement

Demonstrate public support for a high-quality STEM education and a career-connected learning system that provides every young adult in the Capital region multiple pathways to an in-demand career and a family-wage job.

Support for a high-quality STEM education and a regional Career Connected Learning system that prioritizes:

• Student Interest
• Multiple Career Pathways
• In-demand Occupations
• Post-Secondary Credentials
• Equitable Access

Benefits

• Receive proviso funding & legislative support
• Stay abreast of current/pending legislation
• Influence sector growth in the region

Support students’ early awareness of exciting careers in your industry.

• Serve as a classroom Guest Speaker
• Participate on a Career Panel
• Attend and host a table at a Career Fair
• Host a Worksite Tour for students to visit your company (In-person or Virtual)

Benefits

• Grow student interest in new & innovative fields
• Develop educators’ knowledge of your organization

Inform and motivate the next generation of young professionals and help teachers connect your careers to their curriculum.

• Provide a student Job Shadow or Informational Interview
• Participate in a STEM Like Me event
• Offer a teacher Job Shadow
• Partner with a local Community-based organization
• Serve as a school sponsor for STEM-based career events

Benefits

• Connect classroom theory with on-the-job practice
• Actively promote your business to parents, educators & students at events

Develop a ready workforce with the credentials required for jobs in your industry.

• Employ and train an Apprentice/pre-Apprentice
• Serve on the Capital STEM Alliance Executive Board
• Offer State Work Study (college students) through WSAC
• State Work Study | WSAC (wa.gov)

Benefits

• Grow the employee pipeline for your business
• Contribute to regional economic growth

Advise students and provide them with career experiences linked to their classroom learning.

• Mentor a high school or college Intern (unpaid)
• Serve as a student Advisor
• Serve on the Capital STEM Alliance Steering Committee
• Partner with a CBO and K12 education on a paid internship
• Become a program builder for your sector

Benefits

• Post-secondary credential attainment in your sector through badging/certificates
• High school & community college CTE articulation pathways

Provide flexible funding that supports collaborative and innovative activities and programs.

Contribute to Alliance activities and events:

• Early Learning Initiative/STEM Like Me!
• Teacher Professional Development
• STEM Externships/STEM Educator Cafes
• Career and College Readiness Navigator
• Grant collaboration
• Scholarships

Benefits

• Recognition for your business
• Promotion of your brand
• Influence industry growth

Serve as an Industry Representative on a committee or board.

• Serve on a Career and Technical Education (CTE) Advisory Board or a school district industry-specific Career Pathway Committee
• Serve on an Industry Roundtable to help create a new training program to create a future workforce for your needs
• Represent industry on a focus group
• Serve on STEM Alliance Advisory Board
• Participate in a curriculum development process

Benefits

• Influence Alliance direction & vision
• Expanded growth opportunities

Support students’ engagement in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) experiences

• Participate in the Region-Wide Early Learning Initiative
  
• Host a STEM Educator externship and/or a STEM Educator Cafe
  
• Contribute/subscribe to the Capital STEM Alliance monthly newsletter
  
• Attend quarterly Alliance Executive Committee meetings

Benefits

• Market your brand to cross-sector Alliance partners region-wide
  
• Promote the trades as a STEM Career