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What the assessment measures
280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.
Engineering career guide for teens. A guide grounded in measurement instead of opinion: forty careers with the traits each runs on, what the work is worth to the world, the education path, and a way to find out which are yours. Engineering rewards practicality about what works in the real world, spatial reasoning about objects and forces, and collaboration inside large teams on hard deadlines. Teens carry a working profile that is already visible in how they handle pressure, ambiguity, detail and people; the assessment reads it.
Careers the Covington, VA economy leans on
3 counties across Virginia; 0 metro. Economies: 2 manufacturing and 1 tourism and recreation. Flags: 3 population loss and 1 low post-secondary education.
Counties in this labor market
Metros around Covington, VA
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Questions people ask
How is a "engineering career guide for teens" different from a personality type test?
A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.
Does it cost anything?
No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.