Local Businesses that join the STEM Direct Youth Chamber of Commerce help mobilize the business community into supporting Community On Demand™ initiatives that improve the skills and capabilities of their community’s current and future workforce
Executive leaders, managers, owners and partners of for-profit businesses and corporations, independent contractors, and entrepreneurs
Becoming a Business Member of the STEM Direct Youth Chamber of Commerce means joining a network of mission-driven individuals focused on using their time, skills and resources to create impact solutions that address, reduce and/or eliminate the negative impact of socio-economic conditions affecting their communities.
Membership includes a 1-Year subscription with the Community On Demand™ Virtual Connections Mentoring & Career Development Platform (powered by Pathful Connect). Business members are also eligible to create, host and sponsor project-based learning experiences, post and advertise career-building opportunities, verify and award digital badges and micro-credentials, and request scholarships, donations and funding from the Community On Demand™ Student Stipend and Impact Project Funds.
Introduces the functionality of each of the components that make up the Community On Demand™ game set and how they are used to strategically design, build, monitor, evaluate, and optimize the outputs and outcomes of projects and programs within an interconnected learning ecosystem and business operation.
Worksheets like The Strategists Mindset, Critical Thinking Approaches, and the STEAM Skills Self-Assessment give business owners, leadership teams and entrepreneurs their own Community On Demand™ learning experience and introduces the types of outputs, outcomes and strategies they can produce to: 1) strengthen the skillset of their staff, employees, volunteers and future workforce and 2) grow and sustain their current and future business operations..
Includes Business Membership
Introduces the functionality of each of the components that demonstrate how the Community On Demand™ game set is used to strategically map out the business development process. It also uses worksheets like The Strategists Mindset, Critical Thinking Approaches, and the STEAM Skills Self-Assessment as employee skills development and retention tools that optimize the outputs and positively affect their triple bottom line.
Introduces worksheets like The Strategists Mindset, Critical Thinking Approaches, and the STEAM Skills Self-Assessment to help local leaders strategically map out the business development process for entrepreneurs, content creators, new and existing business owners and innovative thinkers. It also uses The STEAM Investigative Process and The Stakeholder’s Dilemma as an interconnected “problem-solving” system to teach individuals, managers and team leaders how to acknowledge various mindsets, leverage existing local resources, and produce high quality, effective and optimized outputs. .
Results of this workshop:
Includes Intro To The Creative Economy
We use the results of the Stakeholder’s Dilemma to demonstrate how the STEAM Investigative Process and Community On Demand™ game set can be used to populate a gamified version of the LEAN Canvas Business Model in order to research, design, plan, coordinate and evaluate a business development strategy and ultimately produce a written plan of action.
Completion of this course awards certification as a STEAM Investigative Process Instructor
Includes The VIP Discovery Workshop
We teach Certified SIP Instructors how to convert their classrooms and training facilities into Community On Demand™ Pop Shop Studios — anchor locations that market, sell and distribute Community On Demand™ products and services that support the special events, training activities and project-based learning experiences required to complete SIP Certification.
This includes:
Pre-requisite: SIP Instructor Certification
Our signature Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model establishes organizational integrity, ensures organizational sustainability and strengthens leadership decision-making capabilities.
Community On Demand Virtual Connections Mentoring Program connects educators and learners with a digital media network of industry professionals to bring real-world relevance and career matching exposures to all students using a 100% virtual platform.
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.
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.
Mapping grids that teach learners how to define, measure, build and name up to 63 of their high-demand employability skills
Helps learners understand the type of approach they take towards identifying opportunities and solving problems
Helps learners acknowledge various mindsets, leverage existing local resources, and produce high quality, effective and optimized outputs
Our signature interconnected “problem-solving” system that strengthens critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills development
A team building activity that tasks participants to create impact solutions that considers and meet the needs of all stakeholders affected by mutual problem
We teach learners how to use Community On Demand™ skill cards to populate the sections of their LEAN Canvas Model
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