Two different themes fit your reasons to be there. One of the two statements below might already be yours.
STEM Partnership Grant Development
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.
STEM Partnership Professional Development
Your cohort ended and the practices are still in the building, held by the few people who learned them. When a piece breaks, there is nobody down the hall to ask. This season turns those practices into structure your institution can run on its own: the pathway written down, the partnership design documented, the partner intake and faculty support routines in a form you can hand to the next person who holds the job. Layered Partnership Design, Workforce Development Pathways, and Partnership Idea Sparks do most of the work here, and everything arrives ready to put in front of your team.
What a Lab seat carries
Nothing here asks you to be in a room at a set hour. A proposal deadline moves, a partner goes quiet for three weeks, a semester takes the month you had blocked out. The material waits, and everything below arrives on your schedule and stays yours to work at your own pace.
The guides arrive sequenced, and your team starts together. Each topic guide comes to you as a paced sequence you begin when you are ready, on your own or with your whole team on the same day, so nobody is reading issue six while a colleague is still on issue two. One sequence runs at a time, which is what keeps a team moving at one pace.
One page per guide, holding all of it. Every topic guide arrives as a single interactive page carrying that guide's newsletter issues, its interactive tools, and its team slide decks together. You open one link to run a session with your team instead of assembling five.
Your questions become the next thing built. Ask what you are actually stuck on, and submit the situation you are living: the partner who went quiet, the memorandum of understanding nobody will sign, the evaluation plan a reviewer called thin. Answers come back as recorded responses in your Lab's private channel, and the scenarios members submit get built into the next round of material.
A facilitation walkthrough for every guide. Each guide comes with a video from STEMsaic's founder, Travis Tangen: how to run it with a team, where groups get stuck, and the background that did not fit on the page.
Any of the four Labs is open to anyone. No membership, no finished guide, and no application comes first, and the topic guides and tools stay free to every subscriber whether you take a seat or not. Pick the Lab that matches the work in front of you.
Open the syllabus and find the guide that lands closest to your next deadline. That is where your season starts.
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