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 test for students. Most career tests stop at a type. This one measures fifteen STEM working traits and eight kinds of impact, then matches the whole profile to careers and to a path from 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. Students choose classes, majors and programs years before they meet the daily work of a career; this shows the ordinary day first.
Careers the Larimer County economy hires into
Larimer County is government and tourism and recreation-typed in the USDA ERS 2025 typology, flagged for housing stress, a metro county. Its labor market is the Fort Collins, CO commuting zone (3 counties), MSA rank #150.
The wider labor market
Most STEM jobs a Larimer County resident will hold are inside the Fort Collins, CO zone, not inside the county line.
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.
STEM program test for students — Fort Collins, CO → · All careers in Larimer County →
Questions people ask
How is a "stem program test for 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.