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Community Groups
Cascade STEAM Community Groups convene aspiring, current, and retired professionals interested in a STEAM topic to connect with fellow community members, discuss technical topics, participate in community building and community service programs, and collaborate with organizations in shared purpose on community projects.
Free. Open to Everyone. All are welcome. Family Friendly. Bring your friends!
Current Community Groups
Community Groups are made possible through the commitment of volunteer leadership and open collaboration of partners. Scheduled events can be found on the Cascade STEAM Meetup Page. Community Groups include:
- Bellingham Linux Users Group: Linux operating system and open source software and hardware (in collaboration with LinuxFest Northwest)
- Citizen Science: science, in particular life sciences
- Cyber: cybersecurity
- Data Engineering: data engineering, including data storage and access, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and large language models (LLMs)
- Engineering: engineering, including robotics
Cascade STEAM collaborates with other local community groups, including:
- Bellingham Codes: software development (Meetup)
- Bellingham Tableau User Group: Tableau Software and related data analytics topics
Start A New Community Group!
Are you interested to start a new Community Group? Are your interests in alignment of the mission of Cascade STEAM? Create a Cascade STEAM Community Group! We offer shared resources to organizers to simplify community collaboration, event management, and event promotion to help organizers focus on their positive community impact.
Shared resources include:
- Entry on our website! to raise awareness
- A dedicated channel on our Community Hub (Discord) for discussion
- Meetup to manage and promote your events to the public
- Zoom to host virtual events with Zoom Pro features
- LinkedIn to promote your activities to professional networks
- Facebook to promote your activities to personal networks
- Google Workspace to organize collaboration with an organization email address and Google Drive Shared Folder
Contact Us
Interested to get involved? Volunteer? Collaborate? We would love to hear from you! Please contact Michael Gan, Cascade STEAM President, for any inquiries at michael.gan@cascadesteam.org, 360-499-2099, or @Michael Gan via the Cascade STEAM Community Hub.