WSE_RNDTrends

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 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: