STEMflorida Launches New Web Site, Calls for Submission
Site Connects Regional Resources, Best Practices and Provides Career Navigation for Students
Tallahassee, FL, December 30, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Analysis from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Bureau of Labor Market Statistics shows that STEM job postings in Florida increased by 10.9% from October 2014-2015 compared to only 4.4% nationally. According to analysis of Census data conducted by Change The Equation, a typical computer programmer with only some college education earns more than a typical non-STEM worker with a bachelor’s degree: $76,000 compared to $73,000. STEM jobs prove profitable and promising, and Florida’s employers need STEM talent.
The new site has been designed to provide immediate benefit for students, workers, STEM-enabled companies and organizations that require STEM talent, philanthropists, and economic and workforce development teams. Additional development around strategic initiatives is slated for early 2016.
More information on STEMflorida and the organization’s strategic initiatives for 2016 can be found at www.STEMflorida.net.
About STEMflorida, Inc.
STEMflorida, Inc. is Florida's key non-profit organization organization for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). STEMflorida incorporated as the state's key STEM non-profit leadership organization on June 24, 2011, answering a loudening call of STEM employers to ensure market-relevant, demand-driven leadership for Florida’s STEM movement. In Florida, a grassroots movement driven by leaders from Florida’s business community, economic and workforce development, and philanthropy launched an initiative originally funded as a strategic project of Workforce Florida through a $580,000 grant in 2009 jointly announced by Enterprise Florida. The announcement followed years of dialogue and due diligence with partners including the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Council of 100, Florida Department of Education, and others. The goal of this collaborative initiative was to establish the right vehicle to ensure market-relevant STEM leadership for our state.
Through the leadership of STEMflorida's President, Dr. Jimmie Davis (The MITRE Corporation), STEMflorida advances STEM and works to secure Florida's competitive economic and workforce advantages. We support Florida's capacity and enable its capability to cultivate and retain the STEM workforce and talent our companies, innovators, and economies need and desire.
In an effort to connect talent and learners to STEM opportunities and to raise awareness of STEM careers, STEMflorida leads the collecting and publication of nearly 1,000 STEM-enabled opportunities across Florida’s school districts and regions. In early 2016, these will include STEM-relevant externships, internships, and apprenticeships.
STEMflorida also supports the formation of Regional STEM Collaboratives (RSCs) across Florida’s eight economic development regions. This effort helps ensure streamlined channels for sharing data, breaking news, best practices, and requests related to alignment across partners and STEM stakeholders. RSCs in Florida’s regions are developing unique best practices models for collaboration around STEM, identifying key strategic priorities most important to their communities, and sharing internal updates with regional partners and STEM stakeholders from across economic development, talent and education, chambers of commerce, philanthropies, and industry.
More at www.STEMflorida.net.
The new site has been designed to provide immediate benefit for students, workers, STEM-enabled companies and organizations that require STEM talent, philanthropists, and economic and workforce development teams. Additional development around strategic initiatives is slated for early 2016.
More information on STEMflorida and the organization’s strategic initiatives for 2016 can be found at www.STEMflorida.net.
About STEMflorida, Inc.
STEMflorida, Inc. is Florida's key non-profit organization organization for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). STEMflorida incorporated as the state's key STEM non-profit leadership organization on June 24, 2011, answering a loudening call of STEM employers to ensure market-relevant, demand-driven leadership for Florida’s STEM movement. In Florida, a grassroots movement driven by leaders from Florida’s business community, economic and workforce development, and philanthropy launched an initiative originally funded as a strategic project of Workforce Florida through a $580,000 grant in 2009 jointly announced by Enterprise Florida. The announcement followed years of dialogue and due diligence with partners including the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Council of 100, Florida Department of Education, and others. The goal of this collaborative initiative was to establish the right vehicle to ensure market-relevant STEM leadership for our state.
Through the leadership of STEMflorida's President, Dr. Jimmie Davis (The MITRE Corporation), STEMflorida advances STEM and works to secure Florida's competitive economic and workforce advantages. We support Florida's capacity and enable its capability to cultivate and retain the STEM workforce and talent our companies, innovators, and economies need and desire.
In an effort to connect talent and learners to STEM opportunities and to raise awareness of STEM careers, STEMflorida leads the collecting and publication of nearly 1,000 STEM-enabled opportunities across Florida’s school districts and regions. In early 2016, these will include STEM-relevant externships, internships, and apprenticeships.
STEMflorida also supports the formation of Regional STEM Collaboratives (RSCs) across Florida’s eight economic development regions. This effort helps ensure streamlined channels for sharing data, breaking news, best practices, and requests related to alignment across partners and STEM stakeholders. RSCs in Florida’s regions are developing unique best practices models for collaboration around STEM, identifying key strategic priorities most important to their communities, and sharing internal updates with regional partners and STEM stakeholders from across economic development, talent and education, chambers of commerce, philanthropies, and industry.
More at www.STEMflorida.net.
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STEMflorida, Inc.
Teresa Barber
850-692-9879
www.stemflorida.net
Teresa Barber
850-692-9879
www.stemflorida.net
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