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At Jacobs, STEAM and sustainability are at the heart of our business and we are united in developing and delivering a global STEAM education and engagement program that demonstrates our commitment to equality, inclusion and diversity.
To us, STEAM encompasses our core values and aligns with TogetherBeyond and Jacobs’ Action Plan for Advancing Justice and Equality, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, our Jacobs Employee Networks and our Collectively strategic causes.
Jacobs has chosen to use “STEAM” rather than “STEM” for several reasons:
- STEAM highlights a broader and more inclusive range of interests and topics in addition to science, technology, engineering and math.
- It provides a greater opportunity for our employees to see themselves in STEAM.
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50 K
hours of STEAM volunteering we hope to achieve by 2025
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17 K+
hours of STEAM volunteering to date
Our approach to STEAM streamlines and amplifies the social value that we create in the communities where we live and work – this means that we share our STEAM resources with anyone who wants or needs them.
By uniting and growing our global STEAM efforts to create an inclusive STEAM education and engagement program we hope to engage employees and students around the world. And our STEAM program will help Jacobs identify and secure a diverse talent pipeline for the future, contributing to our 40-40-20 goal by 2025 (40% women, 40% men, 20% any gender).
“In order to create a long-term and sustainable behavioral shift toward climate change, we must engage, educate and embed those traits early in our future generations, so they are inspired to do things better. At Jacobs, STEAM and sustainability are at the heart of our business – we are united in growing our global approach to STEAM to create inclusive education opportunities and support greater social value, inclusion, diversity and equality.”
Steve Demetriou
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect and Earn Your Wings: Take Flight with the Butterfly Effect are designed to provide young people with the knowledge and understanding they need to put sustainability at the heart of everything they do. The Butterfly Effect program is aimed at 5 to 11-year-olds while the Earn Your Wings: Take Flight with the Butterfly Effect program continues the learning from younger ages into teenagers, aged 11 to 18 years.
NASA Learning Resources
As NASA’s largest professional and technical services provider, Jacobs brings subject matter experts with proven experience in their technical fields, delivering innovative solutions to exploration and research programs across the country. And now, we're bringing you some of NASA's best educational materials so whether in the classroom, the field or at home, we're inspiring the next generation of space exploration innovators, the Artemis generation.
“The STEAM academic disciplines have never been more critical as we address the generational challenge of climate change mitigation, decarbonization and the global energy transition – at an unprecedented pace and scale.”
Jan Walstrom
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