Southeastern to house Northshore Regional STEM Center
Thursday, August 26, 2021
by: Tonya Lowentritt
HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University will soon host the newly created
Northshore Regional STEM Center on campus.
Led by Southeastern and Northshore Technical Community College in partnership
with Louisiana Regional Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Advisory Council,
the Northshore Regional STEM Center will support the mission and goals of LaSTEM in
alignment with stakeholders in the region to connect, collaborate, and build STEM
opportunities to prepare tomorrow’s STEM workforce in response to the needs of all
stakeholders. The Northshore region is composed of Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany,
Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes.
Director of the Northshore Regional STEM Center Wendy Conarro said that recent
legislation created LaSTEM, a system of nine geographic areas strategically positioned
across the state through which communities, parishes, multi-parish regions and the
state can achieve improved STEM education, opportunity and advancement. Each of those
nine areas hosts a Regional STEM Center.
“The Northshore Regional STEM Center is the natural progression of an already
existing, well-developed partnership between Southeastern, NTCC, and STEM-related
industries, government, educational, and community organization, which the establishment
of the STEM Center will help support and grow,” Conarro said.
An advisory committee will be formed with a limited number of representatives
from stakeholder groups to guide the progress of the STEM Center, she explained. The
Northshore STEM Coalition will continue to act as the collaborative organization of
stakeholders dedicated to improving STEM education and workforce opportunities in
the Northshore region.
For more information, contact Conarro at wendy.conarro@southeastern.edu or at 985-549-3306. Additional details are also available at southeastern.edu/northshorestemcenter.