The Skagit STEM network will be expanding to several areas, including Island, San Juan and Whatcom Counties. | Unsplash
The Skagit STEM network will be expanding to several areas, including Island, San Juan and Whatcom Counties. | Unsplash
The Skagit STEM network will be expanding to several areas, including Island, San Juan and Whatcom Counties, Michelle Judson, director of the NW Washington STEM Network, said in a piece published in the San Juan Journal.
“The new NW Washington STEM Network will work to be a catalyst for STEM education and Career Connected Learning in Island, San Juan, Skagit, and Whatcom counties,” Judson said in the San Juan Journal. “To support this expanded role, our new backbone agency will be the Northwest Educational Service District 189 that supports all K-12 school districts in those counties. We will continue to be part of Washington STEM’s Network of partners that harness and employ STEM education best practices within their communities.”
This does not mean that the Skagit STEM Network is going away – instead, it is continuing under the NW Washington STEM program, with an advisory board and Shaun Doffing as Program Manager.
“We are excited to host and support the NW Washington STEM Network,” Larry Francois, superintendent of Northwest Educational Service District 189, told the San Juan Journal. “We see this as a natural and beneficial extension of our existing career connecting learning and professional development work with school districts and community and business partners across Skagit, Whatcom, Island, and San Juan counties.”
The Skagit STEM Network has been in operation since 2015, after the Sedro-Woolley School District and the City of Sedro-Woolley started program to align K-12 education, higher education, community and business owners to support career connected learning and STEM in the county.
“To grow capacity, we are fostering the creation of new partners, such as the Whatcom STEM,” Judson said in the San Juan Journal. “This new structure will also help to build even stronger partnership with local and regional organizations whose mission are aligned with ours such as FuturesNW who help prepare students from high school through their transition into their college or training programs.”
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