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PLTW President and CEO Vince Bertram gave the commencement keynote address at MSOE and received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree.

Project Lead The Way
Applying lessons from the classroom and taking them to the racetrack will be the focus of an INDYCAR-themed STEM education program beginning in 2013.

CBS42
Bella Goubeaux and Darby Franklin, PLTW students at Hewitt-Trussville High School in Trussville, Ala. built a robotic arm that can assist quadriplegics.

Arrowhead Park Early College High School
Arrowhead Park Early College High School in Las Cruces, N.M. was named a grand prize winner in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest.

TakePart
A number of initiatives on the state and national level are in the works to bolster STEM education by encouraging partnerships, training teachers and more.

Herald Argus
Robert Severs, a PLTW teacher at Indiana's La Porte High School, is visiting Germany to see how local Alcoa Howmet products are used by aircraft manufacturers.





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University of South Carolina  

The University of South Carolina (USC) has been a PLTW affiliate since 2002 and hosted its first Core Training offerings in 2003. Since then, the university's Core Training offerings have grown immensely, along with its College of Engineering enrollment.

 

This summer, USC will offer Core Training sessions for 27 different courses at a total of four locations

 

USC's College of Engineering is set to welcome 652 new freshmen - making it the fastest growing college at the university. Sixty percent of entering students say they took PLTW courses while in high school.

 

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Around the PLTW Network

Maryland: The Frederick County Public Schools' PLTW Biomedical Sciences program received the 2013 Career and Technology Education Outstanding Secondary Program of Excellence Award from the state's Department of Education ... Massachusetts: PLTW students at Blue Hills Regional Technical High School in Canton, Mass. won the gold medal in Engineering Technology at the Massachusetts SkillsUSA competition ... Missouri: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC awarded a $4,000 grant to the Hickman Mills C-1 School District's Academy of Engineering program to help expanding PLTW courses at Ruskin High School and Hickman Mills Junior High in Kansas City... Washington: Lincoln High School (Walla Walla) transformed a computer lab into a $95,000 modern science laboratory for its PLTW program.