Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is a national nonprofit organization that provides STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) curriculum and professional development for teachers, particularly in PreK-12 schools. PLTW aims to empower students with in-demand, transferable skills through engaging, hands-on, and project-based learning experiences in computer science, engineering, and biomedical science.  

Engineering Program Courses Offered

Principles of Engineering (POE)

Course Description 

Through problems that engage and challenge, students explore a broad range of engineering topics, including mechanisms, the strength of structures and materials, and automation. Students develop skills in problem solving, research, and design while learning strategies for design process documentation, collaboration, and presentation. 

Environmental Sustainability (ES)

Course Description 

In Environmental Sustainability, students investigate and design solutions in response to real-world challenges related to clean and abundant drinking water, food supply issues, and renewable energy. Applying their knowledge through hands-on activities and simulations, students research and design potential solutions to these true-to-life challenges. 

Biomedical Science Program Courses Offered

By immersing students in activities like practicing suturing and constructing body structures from clay, PLTW Biomedical Science empowers students to build knowledge and skills in biomedical science, as well as in-demand, transportable skills like problem solving, critical and creative thinking, communication, and collaboration. 

Principles in Biomedical (PBS)

From design and data analysis to outbreaks, clinical empathy, health promotion, and more, students explore the vast range of careers in biomedical sciences. They develop not just technical skills, but also in-demand, transportable skills that they need to thrive in life and career. 

Human Body Systems (HBS)

Students experience real-world scenarios and cases to see medicine in action – as they diagnose and provide treatment and rehabilitation to patients at an outpatient center, keep clients safe and healthy on adventure medicine trips in remote locations, and work in a research center to design laboratory investigations to explore development and aging.