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STEM field explorer for students — Miami, FL

STEM field explorer: personality first, then purpose — for students

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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.

STEM field explorer for students. Exploration without a map is wandering. The assessment gives you the map — trait profile, impact profile, top families, top careers, and the ordinary day of each. Each STEM field has a trait signature. Software runs on persistence and abstraction; health on empathy and composure; research on patience and inquiry; engineering on practicality and spatial reasoning. Students choose classes, majors and programs years before they meet the daily work of a career; this shows the ordinary day first.

Careers the Miami, FL economy leans on

3 counties across Florida; 2 metro. Economies: 2 tourism and recreation. Flags: 3 housing stress.

Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Systems Analyst+9%Web Developer+7%Database Administrator+4%Database Architect+4%Computer Programmer-6%Data Scientist+34%Information Security Analyst+29%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Physician Assistant+20%Epidemiologist+16%Computer Network Architect+12%Medical Scientist+9%Statistician+8%Mathematician+8%Mathematics Professor+7%Biochemist & Biophysicist+7%Biomedical Engineer+6%Chemist & Materials Scientist+6%Agricultural & Food Scientist+6%Registered Nurse+5%Microbiologist+5%Geoscientist+5%Physician & Surgeon+4%Clinical Laboratory Technologist+4%Physicist+4%Astronomer+4%Environmental Scientist+4%Zoologist & Wildlife Biologist+2%Atmospheric Scientist & Meteorologist+1%Industrial Engineer+11%Mechanical Engineer+9%Electrical Engineer+7%Aerospace Engineer+6%Marine Engineer & Naval Architect+6%Civil Engineer+5%Environmental Engineer+4%Chemical Engineer+3%

Counties in this labor market

Broward County, FLMiami-Dade County, FLMonroe County, FL

Metros around Miami, FL

Tampa–St. Petersburg, FL4 countiesOrlando, FL7 countiesJacksonville, FL10 countiesBradenton–Sarasota–Venice, FL4 countiesCape Coral, FL4 countiesLakeland, FL3 countiesDaytona Beach–Palm Coast–Port Orange, FL2 countiesPort St. Lucie, FL6 countiesPensacola, FL–AL4 countiesTallahassee, FL9 countiesGainesville, FL4 countiesPanama City–Panama City Beach, FL7 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem field explorer 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.