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.
Technology career path for teens. 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. Technology careers run on persistence through hours of troubleshooting, abstract thinking about invisible systems, and adaptability to tools that change every year. Teens carry a working profile that is already visible in how they handle pressure, ambiguity, detail and people; the assessment reads it.
Careers the Trinity County economy hires into
Trinity County is tourism and recreation-typed in the USDA ERS 2025 typology, flagged for low post-secondary education, low employment, housing stress and a retirement destination, a nonmetro county. Its labor market is the Redding, CA commuting zone (5 counties), MSA rank #249.
The wider labor market
Most STEM jobs a Trinity County resident will hold are inside the Redding, CA 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.
Technology career path for teens — Redding, CA → · All careers in Trinity County →
Questions people ask
How is a "technology career path for teens" 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.