Becoming a Mentor/Instructor 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 learners that 1) graduate middle and high school with strong critical thinking, teambuilding and problem solving skills and 2) demonstrate readiness for life, college, career, business and community reinvestment.

Membership includes a 1-Year subscription with the Community On Demand™  Virtual Connections Mentoring & Career Development Platform (powered by Pathful Connect).  Mentor members are also eligible to create project-based learning experiences 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 the use of skills fuel our creative economy.  It also gives detailed instructions on how to conduct a skills self-assessment, calculate the value of a participant’s contributions to society, and complete the four levels of game play.

Worksheets like The Strategists Mindset, Critical Thinking Approaches, and the STEAM Skills Self-Assessment give instructors their own Community On Demand™ learning experience and introduces the types of outputs and outcomes their learners will produce as they play the game.

Includes Mentor Membership

Introduces The STEAM Investigative Process and The Stakeholder’s Dilemma as an interconnected “problem-solving” system that teaches individuals how to acknowledge various mindsets, leverage existing local resources, and produce high quality, effective and optimized outputs.

Expands the functionality of the STEAM Skills Self-Assessment as a tracking, measuring and reporting tool and how it is used to capture and report trend data.

Includes Intro To The Creative Economy

We teach educators, mentors, hiring managers, life coaches, executive management teams and entrepreneurs how to use the 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.

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:

1. Strategically design, build, monitor, evaluate, and optimize the outputs and outcomes of projects and programs that focus specifically on six key socio-economic conditions that affect the health and wellness of a community.
2. 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:

1.  Completing the Pop Shop Organizational Development Workshop
2. Securing a NEXT Steps Online Training Academy Course License
3. Establishing an infrastructure to manage the Community On Demand™ Digital Media Network for project-based & work-based learning experiences
4. Establishing universal procedures to evaluate, optimize, maintain and sustain a Local Contributor Network
5. Securing a Pop Shop Studio Cooperative Marketing Affiliate number and license 

Pre-requisite: SIP Instructor Certification