Building A Community of Practice
Our Core Belief
Innovation belongs to the people. We believe every learner already brings valuable culture, creativity, lived experience, talents, and community knowledge that can serve as a foundation for innovation, opportunity, and impact.
Our Foundation
Story, Mission, & Vision
Our Story
Our ambition is bold: empower students today to create a ripple effect for generations to come. We activate the brilliance of our students and prepare them to become the innovators, creators, and professionals shaping the future. Our work is designed not only to expand individual opportunity, but to strengthen economic mobility across families and communities through future-ready STEAM pathways, career-connected learning, and access to emerging technologies.
Through the collective strength of our national STEAM innovation network, industry partners, and P–20 collaborators, we are building a connected ecosystem that brings together education, workforce preparation, technology, and community. By sharing innovation across institutions and activating both virtual and physical spaces, we strengthen pathways from learning to careers and create opportunities that help students see themselves as innovators and creators, while cultivating a STEAM workforce that reflects the talent, creativity, and lived experience of the communities our institutions so proudly serve.
Our Vision
Our Mission
Leadership
Meet Our Talented Team
Our team shares a commitment to the belief that innovation belongs to the people and to expanding opportunity through education, creativity, technology, and collaboration. Across programs, partnerships, immersive experiences, outreach, and operations, we help students, educators, and communities connect, create, and learn new skills.
Core Values
Core Values & Focus Areas
What We Value and Where We Focus
Innovation Belongs to The People
We Value
Where We Focus
Our Core Strategies
We advance this work by:
Embedding equity by design into every initiative we launch and scale, aligning collaborators around a shared vision that innovation belongs to the people, and activating that commitment through authentic partnerships grounded in a For Us. By Us. With Us. framework.
Building local to national, cross-sector partnerships with families, communities, P-16 education, industry, and government leaders.
Activating student brilliance and agency through a cadre of homegrown peer mentors.
Mobilizing CSUN BetaCulture(a) Innovators (BCIs) to establish a leadership pipeline that inspires and equips young people to pursue STEAM careers.
Engaging P-16 learners and teachers in immersive, hands-on, agency-building STEAM learning for social good.
Convening national HSI leaders to advance innovative, culturally relevant, interdisciplinary STEAM practices.
Scaling collective impact through cutting-edge technology and our state-of-the-art Innovation Hub, broadening access to high-impact STEAM innovation programming, and advancing social impact and pathways to economic mobility.
Partner With Us
Our Industry Partners
Collaboration expands what is possible. The Hub works with organizations and industry partners that bring knowledge, technology, mentorship, and new perspectives into educational experiences. Together, we can help learners explore emerging fields, strengthen career pathways, and create opportunities that connect classroom learning with the world beyond campus.
Foundational Partners
Our foundational partners provide the expertise, technology, and resources that help shape the Hub’s innovation ecosystem and expand what is possible for students, educators, and communities.
Partner Ecosystem
Our growing network of collaborators brings expertise, resources, and opportunities that strengthen the Hub's innovation ecosystem.
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Volunteer With Us
Educators
Volunteer with the Hub to mentor learners, share expertise, support challenge-based learning, and help K–12 and college students connect education with innovation, careers, and opportunity.
Get Involved
Industry & Organizational Professionals
Bring your industry and professional expertise directly to learners. Share insights, emerging trends, workforce knowledge, and career guidance through mentoring, workshops, challenge coaching, and other learning experiences.
Share Your Expertise
Alumni & Professionals
Your journey can help someone imagine their own. Share your experience in STEAM, technology, creative industries, or entrepreneurship through mentoring, career conversations, workshops, and coaching.
Share Your JourneyEducators
Volunteer with the Hub to mentor learners, share expertise, support challenge-based learning, and help K–12 and college students connect education with innovation, careers, and opportunity.
Get InvolvedLooking for Opportunities?
Explore Hub programs, challenges, learning experiences, mentoring, career connections, and other opportunities designed to help you build skills, create, and discover what comes next.