South Jersey STEM Ecosystem [New Jersey]

South Jersey, NJ

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Who We Are

The South Jersey STEM & Innovation Partnership (SJSIP) is a community of collaborative partners to improve STEM education and career pathways across southern New Jersey. Our growing community includes collaborators representing industry, post-secondary education, K-12 schools, philanthropy, small businesses and STEM-rich organizations engaged under a common vision for STEM.

Vision

The South Jersey STEM & Innovation Partnership is a diverse community of individuals, institutions, and industry. We collaborate to ensure an inclusive STEM culture that champions access to innovation, opportunity, equity, and lifelong learning. We are making South Jersey the “Go-To” place for STEM Talent.

Mission

SJSIP’s goal is to grow and align assets and efforts to develop, implement, replicate and take to scale evidence-based, interdisciplinary innovations that will better prepare all learners within the region for the 21st Century’s rapidly evolving STEM economy.

Priority Areas

  • Equity: To ensure inclusive, equitable access to STEM for all
  • STEM Education Pathways: To promote cross- sector approved STEM education pathways for Pre-K to Post-Secondary
  • STEM Engagement: To increase student, teacher, family and community STEM engagement
  • STEM Identity: To broaden STEM learning participation to spark interest and build STEM identity
  • STEM Workforce: To meet the South Jersey STEM workforce demand of the 21st century and beyond

Key Programs

SJSIP HACKATHONS
Utilizing the framework of the Cisco Hackathon Playbook, SJSIP will host two hackathons, one at Camden County College and one at Salem Community College. Teams of high school students will select a problem of their choosing to solve and develop a solution through the creation of an app and/or IoT solution.

TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The SJSIP is committed to devoting resources for professional development designed to respond to the needs of secondary and post-secondary educational partners, business and industry, and the South Jersey community. Ongoing workshops and classes will reflect the dynamic educational and business environment of the 21st century.

Key Articles

Partners

  • Camden County College – Margo Venable, Dean, Division of School, Community & Workforce Training Programs
  • Camden Dream Center – Keith Davis, Executive Director, Camden Dream Center
  • Salem County Community College – Ken Robell, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
  • Cumberland County Community College College
  • Camden City Public Schools – Jay Waugh, Lead Educator, Strategic Initiatives & Operations
  • Mindbytes – Pavithra Lakshminarayan, Creator and Chief of Mindbytes
  • WoW Science Camp – Fola Adebi, Executive Director
  • The DOT Organization (Dream of Tomorrow)
  • Camden County Technical Schools

More information about our partners

Additional Info

South Jersey STEM Ecosystem is part of New Jersey STEM Ecosystems statewide initiative. Replicating the National STEM Learning Ecosystems model, the NJSPN has fostered the creation of eight STEM Learning Ecosystems to advance collaboration across educators, business, government and community-based organizations in order to form more integrated cradle-to-career pipelines.

Representing all 21 New Jersey counties, the Ecosystems are opportunities to address unique regional challenges, while also providing a space to pilot, scale and replicate work that expands a statewide vision of STEM.

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Contact

Pavithra Lakshminarayan
Creator & Chief, Mindbytes
pavithra.lakshminarayan@gmail.com

Elizabeth Rodriguez
Asst. Director, 21st Century STEM Program, Camden County College
erodriguez1@camdencc.edu

Michelle Riordan
STEM Director, Police Activities League of Egg Harbor Township & Atlantic County
michelle.riordan@ehtpal.org

 

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