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.
STEM fields path with no experience. 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. 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. No experience is the starting state of every STEM Farm track: zero-STEM intake, then verified proof at every gate.
Careers the Paducah, KY–IL economy leans on
12 counties across Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee; 5 metro. Economies: 3 manufacturing, 2 government, 2 farming, 1 tourism and recreation and 1 mining and energy. Flags: 6 population loss, 2 low post-secondary education and 1 low employment.
Counties in this labor market
Metros around Paducah, KY–IL
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Questions people ask
How is a "stem fields path with no experience" 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.