Amigos en Acción
STEM Compass

STEM program explorer for beginners — Richmond, IN–OH

STEM program explorer: personality first, then purpose — for beginners

HomeSTEM CompassSTEM program explorer for beginners › Richmond, IN–OH

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 program explorer for beginners. 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. A STEM program is a path to a career. Find the career that fits first, then the STEM Farm track that starts at zero and ends in that job with verified proof at every gate. A beginner needs a direction before a curriculum. The assessment is the direction; the track is the curriculum.

Careers the Richmond, IN–OH economy leans on

3 counties across Indiana; 0 metro. Most counties are nonspecialized, which in ERS typology usually means a diversified metro economy. Flags: 2 population loss.

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

Counties in this labor market

Fayette County, INUnion County, INWayne County, IN

Metros around Richmond, IN–OH

Indianapolis, IN13 countiesLouisville/Jefferson County, KY–IN12 countiesFort Wayne, IN11 countiesSouth Bend, IN–MI8 countiesEvansville, IN10 countiesLafayette, IN9 countiesTerre Haute, IN8 countiesBloomington, IN6 countiesMuncie, IN5 countiesColumbus, IN4 countiesGreendale–Lawrenceburg–Hidden Valley, IN–OH6 countiesHammond, IN5 counties

All forty careers in Richmond, IN–OH → · STEM program explorer for beginners everywhere →

Questions people ask

How is a "stem program explorer 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.