We offer youth and young adults (ages 11-24) leadership, skills development and training experiences to ensure they have the readiness tools they need to succeed in life, college, career, business and community reinvestment.
Youth (6th-12th grades) and young adults (ages 16-24) that wish to enter the workforce, apply for college, join the military, launch a social venture and/or become an entrepreneur.
Becoming a Student 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). Student members are also awarded an in-game currency of $2,070 Potential Value and is eligible to receive 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 explains how the use of your skillset fuels 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.
Includes Student Membership
Participants are taught how to use the Community On Demand™ game set with The Strategist Mindset and Critical Thinking Approaches worksheets to “visualize” their career-mapping conversation.
Participants also learn how to use the Skills Self-Assessment Worksheet to track, measure and monitor their growth and create achievement statements for their resumes, STEAM Capability Reports, job applications, business strategies, pitch presentations, mission statements and other useful documentation.
Includes 90-Minute Boot Camp
Introduces The Stakeholder’s Dilemma — an exercise where participants must take into account the concerns of each key community stakeholder before they create an impact solution that addresses the problem at hand.
Participants will also learn how to form a Junior Executive Management (JEM) Team and complete the first three lessons of The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs.
Includes The VIP Discovery Workshop
We use The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs Activity Workbook, Toolkit & Online Courses to help leaners 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.
Completion of this course awards certification as a STEAM Investigative Process Scholar
Includes JEM Team Leadership 101 Workshop
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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