Use the STEM Innovator®Online Portfolio Tool with your students to develop and capture their innovation skills and project work overtime. This tool is changing the way students demonstrate workforce and college readiness competencies!
KEY FEATURES
- Facilitates the implementation of problem-based learning in any secondary course
- Develops and captures growth in innovation skills, mindsets, and concepts overtime
- Students analyze real-time feedback from peers, educators, and community partners as they innovate solutions to real-world problems.
Click on each ICON title to watch a brief overview video.
Measurement of Skills & Mindsets Over Time
Project Management Tool: Define Problem, Highlight Solution & Key Project Details
Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity While Pitching Solutions for Feedback
Measurement of Team Collaboration, Conflict Negotiation, Diversity of Leadership
Spotlights Technical Features of Solution & Value Proposition
Portfolio Resources
Access to reflection questions, sample pitch videos, user support information
Start using the online STEM Innovator® Portfolio Tool today!
- Licensed annually
- $299 annual license for high school and post-secondary school educators
- $149 annual license for middle school and elementary school educators
- Included with your purchase is a Portfolio Tool Resource to get you started and access to weekly Zoom sessions to provide user support.
Looking for online, self-paced professional development to complement using the Portfolio Tool with your students?
Consider trying one of our online workshops
- Cost: $39 for workshop 1, $79 each for workshops 2-5, includes curriculum
- Optional graduate credit: $149/credit
- Complete workshops 1-5 to become certified to offer your high school students the chance to earn 3 transferable University of Iowa college credits
Measurable Results
Through engagement in STEM Innovator® students practice and learn the value of adaptability, failing, resilience, effective communication, and data-driven decision making – all skills critical for the careers of the future.
Offer High School Students College Credit
To be Eligible
- Teachers: Must be a STEM Innovator®Certified instructor by completing our professional development workshops 1-5.
- Students: High school freshmen through seniors working with STEM Innovator®Certified instructors must achieve a score of 70% percent or greater on the proficiency exam and successfully complete a project portfolio.
- Those who pass are eligible for three University of Iowa entrepreneurship credits from the Tippie College of Business, at a reduced course fee of $150. The credits are transferable at most colleges and universities in the United States.
Brian Cyr
STEM Innovator®Certified High School Instructor, Architecture & Engineering and Business Startup at Waukee Aspiring Professional Experience (APEX), Iowa
"The STEM Innovator®Portfolio is a go-to resource for my classroom. It helps me understand the skill sets and interests of my students, as well as providing measurable data on their learning during the semester. The feedback tools enable students to honestly assess themselves and their teammates, giving them an opportunity to build on critical thinking and reasoning skills."