Promoting public interest and awareness of the need for more STEM educators; Collaboration services, namely, providing forums for networking, collaborating, and sharing of information, best practices, challenges, strategies, and advice, all relating to the causes of and solutions for the shortage of STEM educators; Coordinating a network of non-profit organizations, school districts, colleges and universities, teacher preparation programs, and museums to work together to study the causes of the shortage of STEM educators and to devise and implement solutions to recruit and retain quality STEM educators; Promoting collaboration amongst entities interested in solving the problems caused by a shortage of STEM educators to work together to study the causes of the shortage of STEM educators and to recruit and retain quality STEM educators