Evaluation, partnership design, public and policy engagement, workforce and STEM education. STEMsaic designs with expertise across the science:society interface. We help your team do this work before, during, and after the grants are won.
Free. A complete Team Guide and its eight tools, yours in the first email.
Every project is a mosaic: many specialized pieces, partners, and possibilities that create the overall picture of impact. The integration of these pieces is the work that needs to occur.
STEMsaic helps the mosaic of design:build partnership work to match your goals and resources at all stages of a project.
Your evaluation and infrastructure built as embedded and working tools in your project, not plans on a shelf.
Your team, coached and connected to implement and build fundable proposals together.
Your funded work, turned into evidence of impact through participatory evaluation, data, and story.
Your public, policy, and workforce engagement, informed by research and practice to be built for impact.
The four STEM Partnership Lab themes all run inside the same larger community. There are multiple interactives, resources, decks, and topical STEM Partnership development team guides paired with webinars and videos that move through the academic calendar.
Everything is designed based on practical experiences of academic life and providing the pathways that you need to do this work the way you want to. STEMsaic is leading and supporting more than a dozen design and evaluation projects, including four NSF EPIIC awardee campuses and the NOAA Sea Grant study of Great Lakes microplastics, where STEMsaic's founder, Travis Tangen, is a Co-PI. The STEMsaic Team Guides paired with the live and on-demand webinars can be the professional supports and facilitation guides to work with your team and integrate with existing campus expertise and resources.
Whichever of the four STEM Partnership Labs you sign up for will have the shared material tailored and pointed at your specific purpose. Here are the four STEM Partnership Lab themes.
Every topic guide and every interactive tool is free to subscribers. No meter, no trial. A Lab seat is the separate choice you make when you want your questions answered on the record and the material pointed at your own project.
Your program put students into real partnership work, and it worked. Partners answer your email. The funding line has an end date, and the next proposal is a shape in your head that nobody has written down yet. This season moves that shape onto the page: the partnership story a reviewer cares about, the co-design that makes the project real, the proposal architecture, and the evaluation plan a program officer can read without calling you. Broader Impact Story Stacks, Partnership Idea Sparks, Partnership to Proposal, and Participatory Evaluation for Researchers carry most of the year here.
From $45 a month or $450 a year a seat.
Are you part of a multi-partner collaborative project, or does your campus already have a research development or broader impacts core supporting this work? Bring these pieces together and integrate the STEM Partnership Lab resources for individual and small group faculty work. STEMsaic's STEM Partnership Labs are designed to plug into the workshops, cohorts and programs you already run. This combination of synced and asynchronous activities can help with the demanding staff and faculty schedules of all involved.
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Run one of these tools with your team at your next standing meeting and see if the meeting goes differently. All of the resources were designed with faculty and staff in mind.