The ESTE Team continues to refine the ESTE Is Innate Assessment based on the framework developed by the CEO and Founder, Terrisa Duenas. We are currently tailoring the assessment to better resonate with the middle-school student…

In May this year, we were thrilled to receive notification from the U.S. National Science Foundation that ESTE Leverage was …

Recently, Terrisa Duenas (CEO and Founder of ESTE Leverage) and Cecilia Duenas (Advisor to ESTE Leverage) had the privilege and opportunity to travel to the Maasai village of Elerai in Africa…

At ESTE Leverage, we believe in constant growth and improvement, not only for our clients but also for our internal team…

González, Moll, and Amanti first published a book in 2005 entitled Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing practices in households, communities, and classrooms. Their concept, Funds of Knowledge, …

Explore insights from ESTE Leverage on how moms are shaping the future of their daughters. Discover strategies to support, nurture, and empower middle-school girls in a rapidly changing world. Learn from real-life experiences and find out how you can help your daughter build self-confidence, manage social media influence, and thrive both in and out of school.

Los Angeles-based start-up, ESTE® Leverage, has been awarded a seed fund grant valued at $275,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to further…

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™.