STEM CareerX

The Institute for STEM Education at Cal State East Bay developed the STEM CareerX project as part of a collaboration with Bayer, the City of Berkeley Office of Economic Development, Berkeley Startup Cluster, and Berkeley High School Career Technical Education (CTE).

The main goals of this project are to expose historically underrepresented students in STEM to diverse STEM-based applications and careers in their community, empower and inspire them to pursue STEM education pathways, and strengthen the long-term connection between Berkeley High School CTE and local STEM companies.

“These visits have fully shown me the scope of possibilities and opportunities within STEM.”
"It gave me a glimpse of what my future could look like.”
[the experience] “Made me feel calmer and less anxious about the future...there are many ways to build a career path.”
"There’s so many pathways within STEM that I truly believe there’s a path for everyone."
“From every visit I’ve attended I learned that everyone starts from scratch and tries their best to achieve what they wanted to do in their company. Also, being a good critical thinker plays a big role as a STEM major.”