Overview

Educational Consulting Firm  Is the founding researcher, epistemologist, and practitioner of STEAM Education.  Provides international ministries, and global programs and educators with customized training and professional development for integrating STEAM initiatives into different types of educationally related programs. Develops professional development, curricula, outreach, extension, after-school, camp and home-schooling materials.  Has trained and created a network of 2000+ individuals from 34 States and 13 international countries including over 50 staff teams with more than 25 Elementary and more than 35 MS/HS programs involved. Countries include Australia, Bahamas, Canada, China (Mainland & Shanghai), Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Panama, Philippines, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam.  Has given 25+ invited keynotes and panel presentations which have extended the work beyond the above-listed areas to Qatar and Russia. Wikipedia says, "One early founder of the STEM initiative is Georgette Yakman, who in addition to raising the idea of adding the arts to the STEM acronym, claims to have found a formal way to link the subjects together and correspond them to the global socioeconomic world: "Science and Technology, interpreted through Engineering and the Arts, all based in elements of Mathematics." She provides professional development training to individual educators and programs on how to use the STEM framework." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEAM_fields