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 community members interested in a STEAM topic to connect, participate in shared learning experiences, and socialize. Our current Community Groups include Artificial Intelligence, Citizen Science, Cyber, Data Engineering, Engineering, Spectrum, and Open Source.

As collaborative interests evolve, these efforts are organized as Community Projects to further our goals of community building and community service. As Service Corps also functions as our volunteer coordination program, many of our Community Projects are expansions of Service Corps.

Community Service:

• Service Corps is a technology training and community service program for social good.
• Collaborative Internship works with students and local organizations to provide internships.
• Consulting provides business, technology, and education services to the community.
• Digital Navigators provides FREE basic technology support for social service patrons.
• Help Desk provides FREE technology support for the general public.
• Reuse refurbishes donated technology and office equipment for a new productive purpose.

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.
• 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 annual open source technology conference that we co-organize.
• Mentorship connects mentors and mentees in traditional or peer mentorship relationships.
• Stormwater Monitoring provides support for the RE Sources Water Keeper Program.

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.