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.
Which STEM fields is right for me for extroverts. The honest answer is the one whose daily work matches how you already operate. The assessment finds where your profile lands and shows you the ordinary day of each match. Eight STEM fields, eight trait signatures. The assessment scores you on all fifteen traits and shows which fields are already yours before you commit to a major or a program. Nursing, physician assistant, systems analysis, industrial engineering and epidemiology run on communication and collaboration; if people energize you, they surface.
Careers the Codington County economy hires into
Codington County is nonspecialized in the USDA ERS 2025 typology — no single industry dominates, a nonmetro county. Its labor market is the Brookings, SD commuting zone (6 counties).
The wider labor market
Most STEM jobs a Codington County resident will hold are inside the Brookings, SD 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.
Which STEM fields is right for me for extroverts — Brookings, SD → · All careers in Codington County →
Questions people ask
How is a "which stem fields is right for me for extroverts" 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.