“STEM education has the power to improve all of our lives. Our hope is that by equipping our youth with the right skills, tools, and opportunities, we can inspire our next generation of innovators, ensuring a bright future for our community, and our world.”
— MEDB STEMworks™ team
Women in Technology (WIT) was created to build and strengthen the education to workforce pipeline. It was founded in 2000 by Leslie Wilkins, the President and CEO of the Maui Economic Development Board (MEDB). Recognizing the need to have a Hawaii-led STEM Service-learning education program, WIT launched STEMworks™ to engage, inspire, and motivate K-12 students and underrepresented groups. The goals of the program are to:
"provide students and teachers with the most current, high-end technologies available in some of the most progressive STEM fields in the world.
foster an educational environment that helps participants gain insight into their own abilities to acquire and use information, solve problems, and gain valuable experience in using this technology.
encourage students to become creative, intuitive, adaptable learners and collaborators who can solve unpredictable, real-world problems.
Since the STEMworks™ program began in 2000 as a Maui pilot, it has grown to include every island, involving 29 schools, and over 40,000 students and teachers annually." - STEMworks Hawaii
STEMworks programs are fully subsidized programs, in which no participant is ever asked to pay a fee. These programs for Kalama Intermediate are specifically Hula, Gardening, Introduction to Robotics/Coding, 3D Printing, Esports, Social Media Marketing, etc. and are identified with STEMworks logo on this website.
STEMworks is a private entity, and is not affiliated with the DOE.
