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STEM program path for high school students — Chattanooga, TN–GA

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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 path for high school students. 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. 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. High school is early enough to choose classes and late enough that a working style is already visible.

Careers the Chattanooga, TN–GA economy leans on

12 counties across Georgia and Tennessee; 8 metro. Economies: 6 manufacturing, 2 government and 1 farming. Flags: 4 a retirement destination, 2 low post-secondary education and 1 low employment.

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

Counties in this labor market

Bledsoe County, TNBradley County, TNCatoosa County, GADade County, GAHamilton County, TNMarion County, TNMcMinn County, TNMeigs County, TNPolk County, TNRhea County, TNSequatchie County, TNWalker County, GA

Metros around Chattanooga, TN–GA

Atlanta, GA16 countiesNashville-Davidson, TN12 countiesMurfreesboro, TN8 countiesJacksonville, FL10 countiesMemphis, TN–MS–AR9 countiesKnoxville, TN10 countiesAugusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance), GA9 countiesHuntsville, AL8 countiesSavannah, GA13 countiesTallahassee, FL9 countiesClarksville, TN–KY5 countiesColumbus, GA–AL13 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "stem program path for high school 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.