• Present environmentally connected strengths, weaknesses, challenges  and opportunities within the
    community
  • Present students and young community residents’ STEM-based projects, inventions, concepts,
    activities to potentially meet and resolve community needs
  • Determine anticipated or established results, key benefits and next steps of current or recently
    completed community initiatives  and match ongoing and future activities with student project teams
    that could deliver measurable results for each initiative
  • Identify, locate, determine value of and strategically allocate community resources that could lead to
    sustainable community, workforce and economic development that directly benefits and impacts the
    Adamsville community
  • Develop  a revised platform of performance measures for student project teams to work from
  • Present and package one cohesive community redevelopment program  for the next 5-10 years.
T.R.E.N.D.S. was developed to help promote and
support student research that could deliver
entrepreneurial solutions and support systems for
development, implementation, testing, and scale-up
of implementation (test) models.

T.R.E.N.D.S. projects will target students and
teachers (Grades K-12) that are engaged in STEM
workforce development in:
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Cyberlearning
  • Cyberinfrastructure tools
  • Networked computing and
  • Communications technologies
NEXT Steps will host an annual Research & Development Trends Forum that will demonstrate the
effectiveness of our strategic organizational growth model.  The R&D T.R.E.N.D.S. Forum will:
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