Education
Feeder high schools
Crenshaw · Dorsey · View Park · Hawkins
STEM Learning Ecosystems are community-based collaborations that connect schools, employers, and community partners to build pathways from learning to the workforce. That is exactly what Custom Image does for South Central Los Angeles — teaching the science, technology, engineering, and math hidden inside real manufacturing trades. We're positioned to affiliate with the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice and the funders who back it.
Community-based collaborations that bring together cross-sector partners — schools, colleges, businesses, community organizations, and government — to design immersive STEM learning and break down the silos between education and workforce development.
A community-based trade school connecting South Central LA's high schools, manufacturers, workforce boards, and reentry partners — closing opportunity gaps and building local economic strength through hands-on STEM trades.
These aren't crafts dressed up as STEM. The chemistry, technology, and measurement are the work — applied, hands-on, and immediately useful.
Photo-reactive emulsions, ink chemistry & rheology, color separation, registration math.
Digitizing as computational geometry, stitch density math, CNC machine technology, textiles.
Vector design software, wide-format print engineering, scale, layout & measurement.
CAD & laser/engraving technology, fabrication engineering, material properties & tolerances.
Abrasive physics, material science of glass & acrylic, pressure & process control, safety.
Dye-sublimation chemistry (solid-to-gas phase change), heat/pressure thermodynamics, color management.
STEM Ecosystems are built on five pillars. Custom Image delivers all five — and the platform makes each one visible and reportable.
Crenshaw · Dorsey · View Park · Hawkins
employers reshoring production
WIOA · regional boards
second-chance & neighborhood orgs
life skills → applied-STEM trade → career
STEM · workforce · equity
Beyond the manufacturing & workforce funders, a STEM-ecosystem identity speaks directly to STEM philanthropy — corporate, foundation, and federal — that funds exactly this cross-sector, equity-driven pathway work.
Manufacturing & tech companies fund STEM pathways that build their future workforce — and reach underrepresented talent.
Foundations resourcing the STEM Ecosystems movement and equity in STEM access — our learners are exactly who they target.
Career-technical education and STEM workforce funds for hands-on, credentialed, in-demand pathways.
Affiliate with the STEM Learning Ecosystems Community of Practice, partner as a cross-sector member, or fund the South Central pathway from classroom to career.