Climate change, diminishing energy resources, healthcare inflation, job and workforce shortages, and value added economic development require a new type of thinking and culture – a culture that stimulates innovation, creativity beyond past paradigms, and people helping people to allow for a future of optimism, growth, and prosperity.

When properly supported and delivered, STEM education – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – combined with art, business, a cross section of many disciplines, workforce and economic priorities, emerges as the backbone in stimulating a renewed culture of innovation that is required to solve today’s complex problems.