With the first quarter of 2023 behind us, ESTE^® Leverage is well on its way to building a stellar team to carry us through the end of the year…

This month, we’d like to introduce you to Laurel (Lauri) Hoffher. Lauri has joined ESTE^® Leverage as Acting Chief Product Officer. When you read further about Lauri’s accomplishments…

At the beginning of 2023, if you weren’t already acquainted with the CEO and Founder of ESTE^TM Leverage, Terrisa Duenas, hopefully you now have a better understanding of the inspiration behind ESTE…

As the youngest child of a single widowed mother, the part about needing to be good at a subject in order to pursue it was lost on me or lost in the commotion of 3 other siblings. Maybe my mother…

During your journey this year, hopefully you have discovered much about yourselves and others, especially in terms of how you choose to engage with others and your world…

As you now know, the ESTE™ Framework (Figure 1) facilitates the exploration of your innate interest or preference in entrepreneurship, science, technology, or engineering.

The ESTE^TM Framework facilitates the exploration of your innate interest or preference in entrepreneurship, science, technology, or engineering…

Contrary to its implied label, being an expert does not mean that one knows everything. In fact, Dreyfuss describes an expert as one whose actions are driven more innately…

The deployment of ESTE™ as an e-learning framework will provide a means for students of any age to engage in STEM and Entrepreneurship independent of their school curriculum…

It was in 2018 when the founder of ESTE™, Terrisa Duenas, was asked to explain nanotechnology to National Science Foundation Master Teacher Fellows at California State Dominguez Hills (CSUDH)…

Rather than a ‘top-down’ or even ‘bottom-up’ approach, innovation integration can begin within any discipline - Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering – or any organization – Government, Academia, Industry, or Society. Innovation integration can grow roots anywhere across the matrices.

The STEM acronym, introduced in 2001 by scientific administrators at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), was initially SMET. In 2001, the words, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics were rearranged to form STEM. We can think of STEM as describing what you do. ESTE™ is Entrepreneurial, Scientific, Technological, and Engineering. The ESTE™ framework helps in the identification of preferences that you might have in any given point in time. We can think of ESTE as describing who you are.

Real-world problems and problems likely to be encountered in any career are frequent and complex. The best solution is often the one that addresses multiple team perspectives and inevitably creates the most disruption. By necessity, these final solutions must cross disciplinary boundaries and, in the end, require team members to relate the value they bring by understanding the value the other team members bring. This relational requirement is one of the pillars of ESTE™.

It’s not to say that our innate preference aligns to only one way of thinking and behaving. It’s meant to imply that we tend to have a preference to lean towards one way of thinking over another. We can think of this framework as more of a spectrum or continuum, as opposed to a box with hard lines, where scientific can overlap and co-exist with technological, which in turn can overlap and co-exist with engineering, and so on.

Mentioning "math person" as a euphemism for someone who is bad at math has become commonplace in our society. Many people believe that they cannot do math because they have had negative experiences in the past. Or as Miles Kimball discussed, “I’m just not a math person.”

However, this does not have to be the case! In this article, we will discuss how ESTE™ can help you improve your math skills, regardless of your ability level.

For both artists and entrepreneurs, each one faces the paradox of giving into a personal vision while requiring the appeal to the public and market. The ESTE™ framework helps entrepreneurs and artists find a way to work together by bridging the gap between business, technology, engineering with art.