The STEM+Hub started as a working STEM hub inside a university engineering school in Fall 2023, and deliberately evolved from wow-factor programming into curriculum-aligned engagement with outcomes someone could trace. Along the way it became clear the hard part was never the activities.
The organizations that most need a functioning STEM program are usually the ones with the least ability to build one. Schools with development offices get the grants. Districts with staff capacity get the partnerships. The gap widens every year that the well-resourced get better at this and the under-resourced do not.
You do not close that with more one-off events. You close it by giving an organization the same operating system a well-resourced one built over a decade — in a form they can actually run, at a price they can actually pay.
That is why the model is a product rather than a program: priced fairly, transferring capability instead of renting it out. It is also why our Ambassadors are paid a flat rate regardless of what a client paid, and why a sponsored organization enters the same ladder as everyone else.
Success is measured by what you can do without us.
We are not trying to be there forever. Let us get you started, let us set you up, and when you want to level up, bring us back. Every gate in the method is written to make that testable rather than aspirational — which is why Handover closes only when your named owner and their named backup both accept in writing.
Vagueness here is what gets people in trouble. These are contract terms, not preferences, and none of them is waivable at any tier, any price, or any lead time.
A single undergraduate supervising other people’s children at an off-site location is the largest liability in this model, and the kind of failure that ends a program rather than costing it money.
Abuse and molestation liability is excluded from standard general liability and requires standalone cover. No Ambassador goes to a site with minors present until that policy is bound and the certificate is on file.
No prospective or enrolled student information from any institution enters our system. Not rosters, not applicants, not minors’ contact information. Aggregate counts only.
Groups visiting a hub are asked for one chaperone per ten students and a designated on-site leader. Going to your site does not reverse that obligation — it moves it into our contract.
The STEM+Hub name, the methodology, and everything built on top of them are independently owned and available for independent commercial use.
University affiliation is part of the founder’s biography and it is real credibility — having built this inside an engineering school is why the method exists. It is not the offering, and the STEM+Hub mark never appears locked up with a university logo.
Louisville, Kentucky. Ambassador Days are delivered on your site within fifty miles as standard; beyond that radius, travel and lodging bill at cost and are never forecast.
Nothing in the blueprint requires our building. Once a program architecture is documented well enough to hand to a stranger, it runs in a high school makerspace in another state as easily as it runs here.