Innovate Tech Charlotte

We help K-12 & College students become Innovative Leaders in Sustainability and STEM. Our students find sustainable solutions for their communities to increase the quality of life for future generations!

Sustainability

Leadership

Students

Innovation

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)

Vision

To use sustainability and technology to better understand how to take care of our people, planet and our environment while increasing the quality of life for future generations!

Partners

Our Partners

United Way of Greater Charlotte

Services

 

We help K-12 & College students to become Innovative Leaders in Sustainability and STEM to find sustainable solutions for their communities!

Sustainability

Using resources that satisfy the current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This concept encompasses three main pillars:

Environmental Sustainability: This involves managing resources so that environmental quality and ecosystem integrity are maintained.

Economic Sustainability: This aspect focuses on maintaining economic growth or stability without negatively impacting social, environmental, and cultural aspects.

Social Sustainability: Social sustainability involves maintaining and improving social quality, which includes aspects like social equity, livability, health equity, community resilience, and human rights. It aims to foster communities that support well-being and social cohesion.

STEM

We use STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to create KITS (includes a box of sensors’ students put together with basic coding) to create Social, Environmental, Economic solutions.

Innovation

Innovation in our courses consist of creating, developing, and implementing new ideas, products, services, and methods that significantly improve upon existing Sustainability and STEM issues. Key aspects of our innovation curriculum include:

  1. Novelty
  2. Implementation
  3. Value Creation
  4. Improvement
  5. Problem-Solving
  6. Process Oriented

Students will have to have the desire to be driven, meet changing needs, analyze challenges and have the good moral character and willingness to take risks and embrace change.

Students

We currently serve K-12 and college (ages 18-25) students, in North Carolina. We are embracing our early adopter STEM School with over $1,000 in FREE STEM & Sustainability training courses, FREE merch, and FREE leadership training (with a strengths finders assessment).

Leadership

Leadership involves guiding, influencing, and directing individuals or groups towards achieving a common goal or vision. It’s not merely about holding a position of authority, but rather about the ability to inspire and motivate others. Key aspects of leadership include:

  1. Vision and Goal Setting
  2. Inspiration and Motivation
  3. Decision-Making
  4. Communication Skills
  5. Emotional Intelligence
  6. Integrity and Ethics
  7. Adaptability and Flexibility
  8. Empowerment and Delegation
  9. Team Building and Conflict Resolution

Leadership styles can vary greatly, from more authoritative to participatory or servant leadership approaches, depending on the context, the leader’s personality, and the needs of the people they are leading. Regardless of the style, successful leadership results in the advancement and well-being of individuals and groups!

Helping students is our Mission, Technology is our Passion, but saving the planet is our goal!™