Take the STEM Compass assessmentSee the STEM Farm tracks
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.
How to choose a STEM program for students. Start with what you love to do, then how you work, then what you want your work to change. That is the order of the assessment, and it is the order that holds up ten years later. A STEM program is a path to a career. Find the career that fits first, then the STEM Farm track that starts at zero and ends in that job with verified proof at every gate. Students choose classes, majors and programs years before they meet the daily work of a career; this shows the ordinary day first.
Careers the Washington, DC economy leans on
13 counties across District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia; 13 metro. Economies: 6 government and 1 tourism and recreation. Flags: 7 housing stress.
Counties in this labor market
Metros around Washington, DC
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Questions people ask
How is a "how to choose a stem program for students" 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.