PROJECT LEAD THE WAY
KENTUCKY


FORGING THE INNOVATION GENERATION

Core Training

 2012 Summer Core Training

University of Kentucky plans to offer 2 STI sessions in 2012.  The steps to register for core training are listed here.

Session 2: June 17 – June 29, 2012

  1. AE – Aerospace Engineering
  2. BI – Biomedical Innovation
  3. CEA – Civil Engineering and Architecture
  4. CIM – Computer Integrated Manufacturing
  5. EDD- Engineering Design and Development
  6. GTT SPE- Gateway to Technology Specialization
  7. PBS – Principles of Biomedical Sciences

Session 3: July 8 -20, 2012

  1. DE – Digital Electronics
  2. GTT – Gateway to Technology Foundation
  3. HBS – Human Body Systems
  4. IED – Introduction of Engineering Design
  5. MI – Medical Interventions
  6. POE – Principles of Engineering

 Cost

  • Registration fee: $2400.00, includes lunch & parking daily & 2 dinner outings;
  • Additional $300 includes dinner nightly;
  • Hotel Lodging $1200.00 for Sun – Thu each week;
  • Additional $200.00 to lodge during the weekend between the 2 weeks of training; weekend meals on your own. 

 Include all requests in registration.  Hotel guests shuttled to campus daily. Commuter guests park daily in Parking Structure 5.

Summer Core Training Details

  • School Districts must have a completed School District Agreement for teachers to participate in the Core Training.
  • Teachers must register as a teacher with PLTW online, complete the online teacher assessment, and register online for Core Training.
  • Teachers from a state that has an Affiliate must attend that center, provided the course desired is available. If a teacher has extenuating circumstance which make it impossible to attend Core Training in his or her respective state, the teacher must contact his or her state’s Affiliate Director to request the necessary changes.
  • Teachers from a state without an Affiliate may attend any Affiliate for training.
  • Course offerings are dependent upon enrollments. If there is insufficient enrollment, the course may be cancelled. Decisions regarding course offerings will be determined three weeks prior to the start of Core Training by the Affiliate.
  • Affiliates reserve the right to cancel any class if enrollment is inadequate. Please contact the institution for class confirmation prior to making flight arrangements.

Summer Core Training Registration Instructions

  1. In order to register for any Summer Core Training, your school must have submitted their signed school agreement to Project Lead The Way, Inc. and you must be a registered Project Lead The Way® teacher.
  2. If you are a new teacher and wish to register, you will need to contact UK Affiliate’s Office (email: info@pltwky.org) to request an invitation to register.
  3. Once you receive your invitation to register, you will be able to log in.
  4. Before you can register for a Summer Core Training, you must first take the pre-assessment for the PLTW® course you will be attending this summer You will find the pre-assessments on the PLTW® Virtual Academy. Note that you will NEED TO BE A REGISTERED TEACHER through the process above before you will be able to gain admittance to the Virtual Academy.The pre-assessments are available on the Virtual Academy:Engineering site. You may take the pre-test at any time prior to registration.
  5. Following passage of the pre-test, you will be given directions to register for the class you wish to take. The national site contains all the information you will need to sign up for the class.

Summer Core Training Feedback …

“Your program this summer was perfection. It made it so easy for us students. Every detail came off like clock work. I will make sure our organization considers UK each summer.”
- Jim Shay, Ohio (3 STI’s)

“Wonderful teachers, facilities, location, instruction, equipment, wonderful staff and assistance.”
- Sandra Cameron, Elizabethtown CC, KY (3 STI’s)

“Excellent job to Dianne, Isaiah & Metty!”
- Jeff Shoemaker, Ohio (3 STI’s)

“I just wanted to write and say how great of a job you and your staff did for PLTW training. I had a great time. The instructors were knowledgeable and helpful, my classmates were very nice and the food was great. I am at another STI training right know and it makes me appreciate how good I had it in Kentucky… I have shared a few ideas with them about how you did things and that I thought were beneficial. Jumpdrives and coffee mugs to start things out were a hit! I’ll let PLTW know.”
- Brad Mackowick, Minnesota

“Let me congratulate you on a very successful STI, I thought you did a great job along with your STI team.”
- Gary Steenbergen, Middlesboro, KY