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.
Statistics career path. 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. Every drug approval, census count and election poll is only as honest as its statistician. The work rewards skepticism, meticulousness, detail and patience.
Careers the Smith County economy hires into
Smith County is farming-typed in the USDA ERS 2025 typology, flagged for population loss, a nonmetro county. Its labor market is the Beloit, KS commuting zone (4 counties).
The wider labor market
Most STEM jobs a Smith County resident will hold are inside the Beloit, KS zone, not inside the county line.
What moves it
- WIOA-funded training pays for the credential, ages 14 to 24 and adults: find your local office.
- Registered apprenticeship — a wage from day one: apprenticeship.gov.
- FAFSA — free to file, the gate to nearly all aid: studentaid.gov.
- STEM Farm — the track from zero to the career the assessment says fits: the twelve tracks.
Statistics career path — Beloit, KS → · All careers in Smith County →
Questions people ask
How is a "statistics career path" 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.