Turn curiosity into capability.
STEMTEQ creates hands-on experiences that help people move from wondering how technology works to building, testing, troubleshooting, controlling, and creating it themselves.
Our mission
We help learners develop creativity, confidence, problem-solving skills, and technical knowledge to understand how things work—and the power to engineer their own future.
Study · Explore · Build
Learning grows through interaction, evidence, iteration, and ownership: Learn → Build → Troubleshoot → Control → Engineer.
Five guiding principles
Hands-on capability
Purposeful action builds understanding.
Creative confidence
Learners modify and invent.
Progressive learning
Skills lead to greater independence.
Quality & transparency
Review, testing, AI use, and corrections are explained. Learn more about our quality and transparency approach.
Responsible design
Reuse, repair, and material tradeoffs matter. Read about our responsible design principles.
Meet the founder
Michael Harrold-Panell
Michael founded STEMTEQ to create clear, thorough, hands-on technical learning. His background includes more than 15 years in manufacturing quality and production management, service in the Marine Corps Reserve as a basic metal worker and in the Army in logistics management, and a career-long commitment to training and mentoring.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in humanities from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in engineering and technology management from Washington State University, with graduate certificates in Six Sigma quality management, systems engineering management, project management, constraints management, and industrial leadership.
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