2014-07-15T17:32:24-05:00 2013-08-31 990 2012-09-01 264107233 Washington State STEM Education Found WASH 5097351300 PO Box 1617 Richland WA 99352 Kristi Nelson 5097351300 2014-07-15 2012 2015-11-30 17:44:51Z Tom Yount PO Box 1617 Richland WA 99352 629256 0 X http://www.washingtonstemeducation.org X 2009 WA The Washington State STEM Education Foundation is an organization that connects and unites the science, technology, engineering and math education assets in the state to provide innovative learning opportunities for the students of Delta High School. The organization's underlying goal is to provide an innovative and knowledge network engaging all of Washington's formal and informal educational resources to continuously improve STEM curriculum, instruction, learning, assessment, leadership, and community engagement. 20 20 3 400 0 0 534699 627992 0 0 2433 1264 0 0 537132 629256 0 0 0 0 197787 169626 0 0 31525 438250 234272 636037 403898 -98905 225358 821228 1145327 34480 8229 786748 1137098 X The Washington State STEM Education Foundation is an organization that connects and unites the science, technology, engineering, and math education assets in the state to provide innovative learning opportunities for the students of Delta High School. The organization's underlying goal is to provide an innovative and knowledge network engaging all of Washington's formal and informal educational resources to continuously improve STEM curriculum, instruction, learning, assessment, leadership, and community engagement. 0 0 288913 The Washington State STEM Education Foundation supported the Delta High School and contributed to a very successful year of operation. The School had approximately 115 freshmen, 95 sophomores, 90 Juniors, and 63 graduating seniors, with a return rate in excess of 85% for the following year. The organization also coordinates community outreach for the school, coordinates a mentorship program, provides equipment, and assists school personnel with professional development.The Washington State STEM Education Foundation was born from our community's passion for improving science and technology education and has led a community-wide effort to expand STEM education for all students. We work with educators, business leaders and legislatures to advocate for the necessity of STEM education both in our community and throughout the State. The STEM Foundation currently supports the programs listed below and continues to seek opportunities to enhance STEM education for all local students.1. Delta High School: Delta students have had many exciting opportunities to interact with STEM professionals from our community and across the state both in-school and out, such as career guest speakers, mentors, tour facilitators and enhanced classroom projects working with scientists and engineers. In supporting the implementation and sustainability of Delta High School and its innovative educational approach, the STEM Foundation has worked to build authentic partnerships with our local community and to support real-world, project based, STEM learning. These partnerships have not only lead to great opportunities for students, but have rekindled in the volunteers their personal passion for STEM fields.2. Expanding the STEM footprint in our community: We are currently escalating our outreach efforts, using the methods honed at Delta, to partner with other local schools who are moving toward a STEM-focused curriculum.3. Expansion of STEMcon, a high school conference with participation from area high schools (public and private), MESA and GEAR up students (national programs designed for disadvantaged youths) where students participate in hands-on STEM workshops, allowing the opportunity for them to experience STEM professions. STEMconnect, an annual outreach event which raises support for the STEM literacy initiative in our local community, and through our STEM Corps initiative to recruit, train and deploy STEM professionals to be mentors and resources for our local educators and students.4. Consistent Community Engagement and Key Messaging to expand awareness of the importance of STEM education both locally and statewide. Shift in Knowledge: Answer the Question: Why STEM? Shift in attitudes, beliefs and expectations: We believe STEM is a workforce and economic development issue for the community Increased public engagement: STEM is a community-wide initiative - empowering members to take action Increased involvement in local schools: Increased efforts of the community to improving local schools - contribute time, talent and treasure Increased capacity and sustainability of STEM Initiatives: development of the next generation of leaders, sharing of best practices and measurements of success and evaluation tools5. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The Executive Director monitors enforcement of the Organization's conflict of interest policy and ensures the proper forms, agreeing to the policy, are completed by each of the Board members. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The Organizations's governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available through the website. Financial statements are available upon request.