Our Mission

We are dedicated to offering an environment and a platform for children’s education, and empowerment of their skills, talents, and creativity to meet the need of the country’s future technology and social workforce readiness.

What We Do

• We provide opportunities and platform for children to develop their talents and skills.

• Through regular STEM competitions, we nurture, praise, encourage and enrich identified and recognized talents.  Competitions are on different topics such as technology, climate change control, renewable energy, environmental protection, and entrepreneurship. The best achievers in different areas are rewarded with grants/scholarships and other resources to improve their skills/talents.

• We believe that developing children's talents is the development of the community and the country's future workforce of all aspects and walks of life because kids are the future of the nation.

• The CSTEP platform is designed to maximize innovation and growth as all of our brightest youth should have the opportunity to become inventors, and potentialities for future innovations have a lot to do with the circumstances and opportunities that are provided to them.

• This platform increases exposure to innovation and provides powerful opportunities to increase the number of inventors in America, particularly among women, minorities, and children from low-income families.

•  CSTEP is one of the nation’s preeminent organizations dedicated to providing children opportunities to inspire one another, unlock potentialities, empower and accelerate innovation, and scale effortlessly to national platforms.  CSTEP will take them through the journey to national and international platforms.

• We offer support to those most deserving through grants and scholarships based on availability to improve their achievements.

• We offer opportunities for children to learn computer programming and coding.

• Opportunities for information technology and cyber security mentorship through experts in the fields.

• Most dedicated and qualified children are guided by experts to participate in the nation's children's cyber and ethical hacking competitions allowing children to spearhead cyber technology.

• We provide expert mentorship and coaching in art, writing, reading, engineering, etc.

• CSTEP is here to tap into our country’s underutilized talents by increasing exposure to an environment where children, especially those from underprivileged backgrounds can innovate, invent and develop their talents.

• In addition to education, we have a great interest in culture and tradition. The collaboration with Virginia Tourism Corporation and Tourism authorities, we organize every two years cultural and traditional festivals to promote culture and diversity.

• We inform and educate youth on drugs and alcohol usage and its consequences.

  Whom We Serve

• We serve service members and veteran kids and young adults who are motivated and willing to participate in different skills and talents competitions and development projects.

What We Provide

• Memberships and access to different educational tools and resources.

About The Board of Directors

President, in charge of administrative operations and communications.

Agbagba, Komlan

He is a result-driven professional, altruistic with extensive experience in leading, teaching, counseling, youth and adult education, community organization and development, Information Technology, and making a difference in people’s lives for over 20 years.

Agbagba’s Different Footprints

He was a former state official and counselor for Youth, Social Education, and Community Development in the Ministry of Youth and Sport in Togo.

As always, he is passionate about education, and community development and has helped to improve the lives of people in different communities. He was the Founder and Director of the Center for Education and Community Development in Togo, Lomé, where he and his staff provided adult education and basic education in computer and information technology to improve the lives of hundreds of young and adult learners allowing them to participate in the economic development of the country. The center has received many recognitions from community authorities.

In the United States, he joined the US Navy and has continued with the same passion to serve, help others and community involvement. In 2013, he received a prestigious recognition, American Legion Spirit of Service Award from Joe Biden, then Vice President, and current President of United States for his devotion and dedication to serve the country and give back to the community. In 2014, he was nominated to receive the Virginia Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Awards.

Also, with the same dedication and passion to teach others, he instructs at different Universities in the U.S. including the University of Maryland where he is a professor of Cybersecurity, Network Security, and Ethical Hacking, and Capella University, where completing is his Doctorate in Information Assurance and Cyber Technology. CSTEP is yet another footprint for him to make a difference in children's lives in America and around the world.

Vice President,
Mr. Bergman

He is an Information Technician (IT) in the Navy and an Active Duty member. He is passionate about community development and has volunteered for many hours to help children in schools, and churches and improve the lives of many kids. He is passionate about the success of the CSTEP project for the kids and youth.

Secretary/Chief Operating Officer CSTEP Projects Manager, USA.

Eric Amedome

A veteran and experienced professional in business administration law with proven skills and specialized knowledge in business law, policies and security management, operations, and logistics management with a strong work ethic making him successful in many dynamic work environments for over 10 years.

Chief Operating Officer CSTEP Project Manager, Africa

Azanledji Kossi

University professor, sociology and community development.

Assistant Chief Operating Officer
Ametepe Adjo Memelio
After her graduate studies at Alliance Francaise d’ Accra in Ghana, she served in different positions as a Business Manager and is a former Director and project manager at the Bonne Fountaine organization. She is the founder and Director of Bonne Alliance which is the community bank in charge of helping women to finance small businesses in the communities.

Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer USA

Tina Lavender

Tina Lavender is a result-driven professional with many years of experience in financial management in the banking industry. Among other positions, she has led and managed the collections department and served three years as a lead trainer and IRA/Trust representative at Navy Federal Credit Union. She also served many years in the role of Security Operations specialist while handling the transaction's vulnerability/security and detection of fraudulent activities protecting members’ accounts from malicious transactions at the Navy Federal headquarters office. She is the lead community liaison at Navy Federal Credit Union.

CSTEP Development Counselor in charge of sponsorship and partnership

Barbie Jordan

A result-driven professional with many years of experience in financial management in the banking industry and a manager at Navy Federal Credit Union Branch Office III.

CSTEP Health/Human Services Manager

Sewodor Abla

She is in charge of health management and safety matters.

Customer Support

Developing and maintaining a reputation for excellent customer service is one of CSTEP's goals and ongoing mission. CSTEP is committed to delivering outstanding, responsive person-to-person customer service in a timely manner.