Both the SIM national network and its regional chapters support schools, programs, and organizations that encourage and enable students—K-12, technical training programs, undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education— to enter into and contribute to the information technology profession. These organizations are often directly aligned with the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs that are charged with increasing the number of teachers trained in teaching STEM subjects and growing the number of students focused on these studies. In 2010, President Obama launched the Educate to Innovate campaign to address America’s middle-of-the-pack ...