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STEM fields guide for beginners — Sheridan, WY

STEM fields guide by personality and purpose — for beginners

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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 fields guide for beginners. 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. Eight STEM fields, eight trait signatures. The assessment scores you on all fifteen traits and shows which fields are already yours before you commit to a major or a program. A beginner needs a direction before a curriculum. The assessment is the direction; the track is the curriculum.

Careers the Sheridan, WY economy leans on

3 counties across Montana and Wyoming; 0 metro. Economies: 1 mining and energy, 1 government and 1 tourism and recreation. Flags: 1 low employment, 1 persistent poverty and 1 housing stress.

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

Counties in this labor market

Big Horn County, MTJohnson County, WYSheridan County, WY

Metros around Sheridan, WY

Billings, MT6 countiesBozeman, MT6 countiesMissoula, MT7 countiesCheyenne, WY6 countiesGreat Falls, MT5 countiesCasper, WY3 countiesDickinson, ND6 countiesWilliston, ND5 countiesEvanston, WY5 countiesColstrip, MT3 countiesGlasgow, MT3 countiesKalispell, MT3 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem fields guide for beginners" 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.