STEM program explorer for Hispanic students — Baltimore County, MD

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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 program explorer for Hispanic 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. 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. Hispanic workers are about 19% of the labor force and about 1.2% of software developers. The path in exists in every county; this names it.

Careers the Baltimore County economy hires into

Baltimore County is nonspecialized in the USDA ERS 2025 typology — no single industry dominates, flagged for housing stress, a metro county. Its labor market is the Baltimore, MD commuting zone (6 counties), MSA rank #22.

Data Scientist+34%Information Security Analyst+29%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Computer & Information Research Scientist+20%Software Developer+15%Computer Network Architect+12%Computer Systems Analyst+9%

The wider labor market

Most STEM jobs a Baltimore County resident will hold are inside the Baltimore, MD zone, not inside the county line.

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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.

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem program explorer for hispanic 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.