About Us The New Jersey STEM Pathways Network, a strategic public-private alliance, was established in 2014 by the New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education to define and guide a STEM vision for cradle to career pathways in New Jersey. The NJSPN is chaired by Laura Overdeck, Chair of the Overdeck Family Foundation and Founder of Bedtime Math, and is managed by the Research & Development Council of New Jersey. The NJSPN aims to attract, cultivate and retain a 21st century workforce in New Jersey, ensuring the state remains a top global competitor in the STEM industry and continues its rich history of innovation.
Our Vision For New Jersey to attract, cultivate and retain a 21st century workforce that is engaged and supported through statewide alignment of public and private STEM educational resources, ensuring that the state remains globally competitive in STEM industries and continues its rich history of innovation. Our Mission The NJ STEM Pathways Network defines and guides a statewide STEM vision for cradle to career formal and informal learning opportunities that strengthen academic skills and inspire students; facilitates research and recommendations on STEM talent pipeline needs and barriers to success; and exposes students to the many educational pathways, experiences, and professionals that can prepare them for STEM degree programs and careers in New Jersey. Our Work Replicating the National STEM Learning Ecosystems model, the NJSPN has fostered the creation of five STEM Learning Ecosystems to advance collaboration across educators, business, government and community-based organizations in order to form more integrated cradle-to-career pipelines.Representing nine New Jersey counties, the Ecosystems are opportunities to address unique regional challenges, while also providing a space to pilot, scale and replicate work that expands a statewide vision of STEM.
NJ STEM ECOSYSTEMS
DATA DASHBOARD
Liberty STEM Alliance HUDSON COUNTY Newark STEAM Coalition NEWARK, ESSEX COUNTY HSMC Tri-county STEM Ecosystem HUNTERDON, SOMERSET & MERCER COUNTIES Delran STEM Ecosystem Alliance BURLINGTON COUNTY
Based on a recommendation that encouraged the NJSPN to identify uniform outcome measures to track the collective impact, the NJSPN leadership team proposed the creation of a data dashboard tool that presented several STEM indicators of success to provide stakeholders an accessible tool to assess the state of STEM and measure their progress over time. As such, the Heldrich Center proposed the develop- ment of the New Jersey STEM Dashboard to present key indicators that match with NJSPN goals.
South Jersey STEM & Innovation Partnership CAMDEN, CUMBERLAND & SALEM COUNTIES
To visit the dashboard: https://njstempathways.org/dashboard.
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