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Leadership & Skills Development Programs
WHO WE ARE
Since 2008, The NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program (501c3) has served as a nonprofit workforce intermediary that specializes in creating interconnected, project-based learning courses, workshops, programs and innovative learning tools (manipulatives) that transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.
Standards
Meets US CTE Course Standard #1
5,000+
6-12th grade students engaged
80%
Immediate gains in skills identification
500+
Over 500 game sets sold to date
Our Learning Tools & Activities
Deliver National K-12 CTAE Course Standard #1
For Employability Skills Development & Improved Performance On Standardized Tests
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Community On Demand Game Set
Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Activity Workbook
NEXT Steps Online Training Academy
August 2020. Paulding County, GA becomes the first school district to integrate Community On Demand™ into their 4-Year Perkins V Funded Career, Technical and Agricultural (CTAE) Employability Skills Development Strategy for all 6th-8th grades.
Paulding County School District
Paulding County, GA
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
The STEM Direct Youth Chamber of Commerce
We simply meet you where you are!
Create Your Leadership VIP
DEVELOP YOUR LEADERSHIP VALUES & IDENTITY PROFILE TODAY!
Our leadership development and skill-building courses are rooted in financial literacy, digital technologies, entertainment, entrepreneurship and economics to help you maximize engagement between all community stakeholders, create highly efficient and optimized learning ecosystems, and take full advantage of career-building opportunities.
Leadership Development
We offer youth and young adult learners (ages 11-24) leadership and life skills development training experiences that ensure they are ready for college, career, business and community reinvestment.
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Professional Development
We offer professional development training to help mentors, educators, life coaches, hiring managers, and instructors create innovative learning ecosystems that acknowledge various mindsets, leverage existing local resources, and produce high quality, effective and optimized outputs.
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Community Development
We help government agencies, community groups and nonprofit organizations leverage the impact of work-based learning experiences to help community stakeholders address, reduce, and/or eliminate the impact of socio-economic conditions negatively affecting their local economy.
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Business Development
We offer local small businesses and entrepreneurs support services through leadership and organizational development training to help them create early investment opportunities for non-profit and for profit businesses looking to hire and retain a highly skilled workforce
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STEAM Revolution introduced Community On Demand™ during the West Point LEADS event.
Paulding County School District
NEW! CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
The STEAM Investigative Process
A new & innovative approach to critical thinking, team building & problem-solving
Earn An SIP Certification
CRITICAL THINKING • TEAM BUILDING • PROBLEM-SOLVING
We fuse the fun of a card game with skill-building courses and activities to teach individuals, educators, businesses and community-based organizations how to adopt The STEAM Investigative Process as a new, more effective approach towards contributing to society, improving standardized test performance, maximizing engagement and optimizing overall outcomes.
SIP Scholars
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We use The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Activity Workbook, Toolkit & Online Courses to help learners assess their skillset, build a Junior Executive Management (JEM) team, increase their financial literacy skills, and ultimately launch a service-learning project and/or social venture
SIP Instructors
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We teach educators, mentors, hiring managers and life coaches how to use Community On Demand™ Learning Management System to strategically design, build, monitor, evaluate, and optimize the outputs and outcomes of projects and programs within an interconnected learning ecosystem
SIP Source Centers
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We help community stakeholders create Pop Shop Studio Marketplaces and community development programs to leverage project & work-based learning experiences that address, reduce, and/or eliminate the negative impact of local socio-economic conditions and facilitate early investment in the development of a highly skilled local constituency.
OUR CREATIVE ECONOMY
The Community On Demand™ Immersion Process
For new & existing training programs
Flexible, Blended-Learning Employment Solutions
CORE/COURSE STANDARDS • AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS • CAREER DEVELOPMENT
We offer business support services that take clients through our four part immersion process in order to successfully integrate Community On Demand™ into new and existing curricula, after school programs, extracurricular activities, and workforce development programs.
Organizational
Development
Our signature Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model establishes organizational integrity, ensures organizational sustainability and strengthens leadership decision-making capabilities.
Virtual Connections Mentoring & Career Mapping Platform
The Community On Demand™ Virtual Connections Mentoring & Career Mapping Platform connects educators and learners with a digital media network of industry professionals that bring real-world relevance to the skills development experiences.
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Activity & Project
Development
Our signature Agricultural Technologies With Open Outdoor Designs (ATWOOD) Model ensure participants know how to connect the contribution values of their community service and project-based learning projects to the local job economy and marketplace.
Evaluation, Maintenance & Optimization
Our Digital Badge & Skillcoin Rewards Micro-Certification System helps stakeholders track, measure, report and sustain the impact of their optimized outputs, standardized test performance and readiness outcomes.
ARE YOU READY TO PLAY?
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Game Set
Card decks and game boards
Online Courses
Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs
Activity Toolkits
Worksheets, Lesson Plans & Educator's Guide
SIP Certifications
Leadership Development Workshop Series
Course License
Online Course Access For Large Groups
Custom Programs
Work & Project-Based Learning Experiences
Consulting
Immersion Strategies & Virtual Connections Sponsorships
Membership
STEM Direct Youth Chamber of Commerce
Enjoy our
hybrid training experience:
Guided + Self-Paced Instruction
- 2-day research and theory workshop
- 4 or 5-day demonstration
- SIP Certified coach support
- Strategy exercises, variations, and more!
- Become a SIP Certified Instructor in less than 6 weeks
- 40+ videos of instruction
- Video library of STEAM professionals classroom sessions & Industry Chats
- Complete the course on your own time & pace.
Join our Growing List of Early Adopters!
Start Your Own Community On Demand™ Pilot Program
RECEIVE UP TO 50% DISCOUNT ON TRAINING MATERIALS
Join our 2-Year case study initiative to help us collect evidence-based data that verifies the amazing results Community On Demand™ is currently producing.
*SIP Source Center Training
*SIP Source Center Training
*SIP Source Center Training
*SIP Source Center Training
GA Tech Students Create Prototype of NEW! Community On Demand App
GA Tech students participating in the Computer Science (CS) Junior Design Capstone course series at Georgia Tech design and create working prototype of the NEW!...
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