Mission

Cascade STEAM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Bellingham, WA dedicated to Building a collaborative, supportive, and civic-minded STEAM community for social good.

STEAM is an acronym for the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. STEAM education is a powerful framework to promote curiosity and creativity, encourage a shared learning experience, and build tools to solve important life challenges.

Programs

Our efforts are organized into Community Groups and Community Projects.

Community Groups convene aspiring, current, and retired professionals interested in a STEAM topic to connect with fellow community members for technical discussion and to socialize, including Artificial Intelligence, Citizen Science, Cyber, Data Engineering, Engineering, Spectrum, and Open Source.

Collaborations evolve into Community Projects to further our efforts of community building and community service, and often collaborate with Community Partners in shared purpose, including:

Community Building:

• Artificial Intelligence Workshops for collective AI training with a focus on community work.
• Breach is a cybersecurity-focused game of capture the flag teaching security concepts.
• Collaborative Internship extends Service Corps with local organizations to facilitate internships.
• Consulting provides business, technology, and community engagement services.
• Educational Robotics provides support for the Bellingham Public Schools Robotics Program.
• Hack Night is a weekly collaborative night for personal, professional, and community projects.
• LinuxFest Northwest is an open source technology conference that we co-organize.
• Mentorship connects mentors and mentees in traditional or peer mentorship relationships.
• Service Corps is a technology training and community service program for social good.
• Stormwater Monitoring provides support for the RE Sources Water Keeper Program.

Community Service:

• Digital Navigators provides FREE basic technology support for social service patrons.
• Help Desk provides FREE technology support for the general public by suggested donation.

Cascade STEAM programs and events strive to be Free. Open to everyone. Bring your friends.

Community Connection

We use online platforms to connect with our community, manage events, and do outreach:

• Community Calendar for our public events.
• Discord to participate in online discussion, planning, and hybrid or virtual events.
• Meetup to receive event announcements and to RSVP for events.
• LinkedIn to share our activity with your professional network.
• Facebook to share our activity with your personal network.

Code of Conduct

All participants of Cascade STEAM events, activities, and programs agree to commit to our Code of Conduct.