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AUGUST 15, 2026 | 9AM
Build By Design Summit
Learn with Purpose. Lead with Passion.
Are we building educational experiences by design or by default?
Are we constructing compliance or cultivating curiosity, confidence, and capability?
3- hour Virtual Experience
Live Panel Discussion with Q&A
2 General Workshop Sessions
Specialized Pathway Session
Access to Resources
Networking Opportunities
Choose Your Path: Secure your spot today to access the full live summit, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities!
Choose Your Path: Secure your spot today to access the full live summit, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities!
Educators:
Educators:
Shaping Futures, Bridging Minds
Shaping Futures, Bridging Minds
Explore how:
Explore how:
Gatekeeping shows up in STEM learning experiences, particularly through traditional grading systems.
Grading, feedback, vocabulary, and classroom structures shape access to expertise.
To empower students to be in control of AI, utilizing it for feedback and thinking systems rather than as a shortcut.
To help students build confidence without lowering expectations.
To authentically connect STEM instruction to future careers and transferable skills.
Educators can design learning environments where more students grow, persist, and lead.
Industry and Tech Leaders:
Industry and Tech Leaders:
Driving Innovation, Defining Careers
Driving Innovation, Defining Careers
Explore how:
Explore how:
To distinguish and teach two often-conflated skill domains: business skills (communication, time and task management, change management) and people management skills (managing, coaching, and leading).
To conduct a candid audit of where your organization’s systems actually support—or quietly undermine—a real coaching culture.
Future STEM talent needs in order to enter, grow, and lead.
Unclear expectations and hidden rules can become barriers to talent development.
Industry can partner with schools to communicate clear needs and expand access to STEM expertise without waiting until recruitment.
Parents:
Parents:
Navigating Pathways, Nurturing Potential
Navigating Pathways, Nurturing Potential
Explore how:
Explore how:
STEM confidence develops at home and in school.
Parents can do when their child says, “I’m not a math person” or “STEM isn’t for me.”
To ask better questions about grades, classes, opportunities, and support.
To support your child's AI literacy, guiding them to connect tools like artificial intelligence to their own critical thinking, rather than relying on them as shortcuts.
To help your child connect school learning to future careers.
Families can advocate without needing to have all the answers.
Students:
Students:
Exploring Ideas, Building Tomorrow
Exploring Ideas, Building Tomorrow
Explore how:
Explore how:
STEM expertise is built over time.
And what skills matter across STEM classrooms and careers.
To recognize and advocate for the support you need.
To take control of AI, using it as a tool to elevate your thinking and learning, rather than relying on it as a shortcut.
To think about your next steps with more confidence.
Your voice can help adults design better learning experiences.
This is a live design experience, not a passive conference. Join educators, students, families, and industry leaders in a working summit where we don't just talk about change—we design learning experiences that build real expertise. You won't just learn ideas; you will move through the Build by Design model and leave with something built.
This is a live design experience, not a passive conference. Join educators, students, families, and industry leaders in a working summit where we don't just talk about change—we design learning experiences that build real expertise. You won't just learn ideas; you will move through the Build by Design model and leave with something built.
Why We Are Here
This summit is a working space for practical solutions: stronger STEM instruction, clearer career connections, student-centered learning, family engagement, and industry partnerships that help the next generation not only enter STEM, but stay, grow, and lead.
The Problem:
The Problem:
In 2023, STEM workers made up 25% of the U.S. workforce. At the same time, the STEM and technical workforce is growing faster than many systems are preparing people for it. In manufacturing alone, employers may need to fill nearly 3.8 million jobs between 2024 and 2033, and as many as 1.9 million of those jobs could go unfilled if current talent and skills gaps continue.
The Barrier:
The Barrier:
STEM talent is everywhere, but opportunity is still unevenly designed. Across education and industry, too many young people are being asked to imagine STEM futures they have never clearly seen, while too many organizations are struggling to recruit, develop, and retain the expertise they already need. Women, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and other historically underrepresented groups remain significantly underrepresented in many STEM and high-tech fields.
The Solution:
The Solution:
Collectively with over 50 years of expertise in education and STEM industry, we will build stronger pathways from classroom to career by redesigning how we teach, assess, support, mentor, and partner.
Who Needs to Be in the Room? (The Ecosystem)
Hear their voice, hear solutions we know will work
For Educators: As AI, technology, and industry continue to reshape the future, this summit equips educators to help shape those changes by designing learning experiences that prepare students for the workforce they will inherit.
For Industry Leaders: Discover how education has developed proven strategies for building expertise, partner with educators to strengthen the talent pipeline, and help shape learning experiences that prepare students for the skills and expectations of tomorrow's workforce.
For Students: Demystify your STEM future by learning how to build expertise, take control of AI as a tool for deeper thinking, and use your voice to design the education you deserve.
For Parents: Gain the knowledge, tools, and confidence to navigate the changing landscape of AI and education, advocate for your child, and support their success in a rapidly evolving world.
The Summit Experience: A Guided Build
The Summit Experience: A Guided Build
General Session 1: The Problem
This session explores how gatekeeping systems emerge in schools, homes, and workplaces and how these systems often prevent learners and employees from developing the expertise they are capable of achieving.
General Session 2: The Solution
This session introduces the mindset shifts required to move from gatekeeping to expertise-building and provides a framework participants will use throughout the summit.
Pathway Experiences: Concurrent Learning Experiences
Educator: Educators leave with practical strategies for redesigning instruction, assessment, and classroom systems so that achievement is driven by learning rather than access.
Industry Leader: Industry leaders leave with strategies for both expanding access to future talent and accelerating expertise development within their organizations.
Parent: Parents leave with practical strategies for helping students navigate STEM opportunities and build independence as learners.
Student: Students leave with actionable tools they can immediately use to improve learning, increase confidence, and prepare for future STEM opportunities.
Live Panel with Q&A: with industry leader experts and educators in the field
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