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Math career path for students — Roanoke, VA

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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.

Math career path for students. A path has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction, the career pages the destination, and the STEM Farm track the start at zero. Math careers — actuary, statistician, mathematician, operations research — reward deep comfort with numbers, abstract structure, and the discipline to be exactly right. Students choose classes, majors and programs years before they meet the daily work of a career; this shows the ordinary day first.

Careers the Roanoke, VA economy leans on

11 counties across Virginia; 11 metro. Economies: 2 manufacturing and 2 government. Flags: 2 persistent poverty, 2 housing stress and 1 population loss.

Data Scientist+34%Statistician+8%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Mathematician+8%Mathematics Professor+7%

Counties in this labor market

Botetourt County, VACraig County, VAFloyd County, VAFranklin County, VAGiles County, VAMontgomery County, VAPulaski County, VARadford city, VARoanoke County, VARoanoke city, VASalem city, VA

Metros around Roanoke, VA

Washington, DC13 countiesVirginia Beach, VA16 countiesNewport News, VA9 countiesRichmond, VA17 countiesLynchburg, VA5 countiesCharlottesville, VA6 countiesJohnson City, TN9 countiesBurlington, NC4 countiesHarrisonburg, VA8 countiesLeesburg, VA9 countiesRoanoke Rapids, NC8 countiesFarmville, VA7 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "math career path 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.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.