COMSTEC envisions a globally competitive 21st Century Colorado STEM Workforce.
Mission
The mission of COMSTEC is to serve as an intermediary in creating partnerships to promote systemic, continuous and sustainable improvement of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in Colorado and leverage those partnerships to enhance the 21st Century workforce by:
- Advocacy: Advocating for systemic and continuous improvement of STEM education statewide;
- Promotion & Support: Promoting and supporting a viable coalition of the education, policy, business, and public sectors of the community focused on STEM education;
- Communication: Serving as a vehicle for discussion, dissemination and implementation of innovative ideas and approaches to effective teaching and learning of STEM
Founding Partner
Colorado Workforce Development Council
Board
- Dr. Angel Abbud-Madrid, Director, Colorado School of Mines Center for Space Resources
- Ms. Polly Andrews, Manager of School and Teacher Programs, Denver Museum of Science and Nature
- Mr. Gary Barbosa, Director, Lockheed Martin Space Systems
- Dr. Carole Basile, Director, Center for Applied Science and Math for Innovation and Competitiveness (CASMIC)
- Mr. Dewey Brigham, CH2MHILL
- Mr. Randy DeHoff, Sixth Congressional District, Colorado State Board of Education
- Mr. Ken Fly, Director of Training and Development, AMGEN
- Mr. Booker Graves, Executive Director, Colorado Workforce Development Council
- Mr. Jeffrey Kidder, Executive Director, University of Colorado Science Discovery
- Ms. Jonita LeRoy, Business Development Representative, IT, Communications & Aerospace, Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade
- Dr. Rusuanne Low, Regional Desk Officer for Africa and the Near East, The GLOBE Program, UCAR
- Ms. Francie Miran, Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists
- Ms. Jo O'Brien, Asstistant to the Commissioner of Education, Colorado Department of Education, Office of Learning and Results
- Mr. Iain Probert, Director of Education and Workforce Development, Space Foundation
- Dr. Mary Ann Roe, Coordinator, e-Colorado, Nanotechnology Roadmap Research Team
- Mr. John Sepich, Colorado Association of Science Teachers (CAST)
- Mr. Gully Stanford, Director of Pre-Collegiate Partnerships, College In Colorado
Members
COMSTEC is a non-profit membership organization which has applied for its 501(c)(3) designation: current participants include the following organizations:
- Aerospace Exchange
- AMGEN
- CH2MHILL
- College In Colorado
- Colorado Association of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists
- Colorado Association of Science Teachers
- Colorado Coalition for Gender and Information Technology
- Colorado Department of Education
- Colorado Department of Higher Education
- Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
- Colorado Nanotechnology Alliance
- Colorado Office of Economic Development & International Trade
- Colorado Photonics Industry Association
- Colorado Science Forum
- Colorado School of Mines, Center for Space Resources
- Colorado State Board of Education
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins
- Colorado State University, Pueblo
- Colorado Workforce Development Council
- Denver Museum of Science and Nature
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems
- Space Foundation
- University of Colorado at Boulder, Science Discovery
- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- University of Colorado at Denver, Health Sciences Center
- University of Denver, The Women’s College Advisory Board for Information Technology Studies
- Western Colorado Math and Science Center
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