Project Lead the Way Kentucky

Glasgow High School PLTW class in the news

metty — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:54:41 +0000

Glasgow Independent High School PLTW class gives students powerful tool for designing their projects with funding from local industry.

Click here to read the news article from Glasgow Daily Times.

Trigg County High School

metty — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:45:51 +0000

Trigg County school board, administration, parents, citizens, and employers are fully aware of PLTW and committed to the support of the program. They clearly see the direct relationship between investing in PLTW and the long-term return on that investment, even during economic uncertainty and high (16.5%) unemployment county-wide.

PLTW students, Matt Savage and Lance Gilliland, developed a virtual building for the local Economic Development Commission based solely off of a brainstormed community idea. Although the construction is awaiting a new business opportunity, the building design is complete on Revit and is being used on the website and in marketing information sent out to new business recruits for the community. In May 2009, this project was showcased during the STLP State Competition and won a best in showcase award. The hope is new construction and businesses will see the virtual building and envision what their building could look like on the site, ultimately lowering the unemployment rate.

Both of these students, Savage and Gilliland, are looking into Engineering Careers after they graduate in 2010.

GTT program in South Middle School in Henderson County is in the news

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:10:37 +0000

Jan 16, 2009 – Students in Donna Waggener’s Gateway to Technology class, at South Middle School in Herderson County, use a compressed air track to test the performance of the small scale cars they designed, customized and produced using engineering software.

Click the links below for news, photos and video.

Franklin County CTC students built table by reusing materials

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:14:24 +0000

Jan13, 2010 – Jeremy Gardner and Justin Parker, 2 students in Franklin County CTC from Mark Harrell’s class, designed and built a cnc/robot work cell table. This table is complete with PC tower holders and controller mounts

Montaplast, a local automotive factory, donated a bunch of extruded aluminum to PLTW program . Jeremy and Justin designed and built the table using that material and some purchased material. These students had to use existing material to come up with a design. This limited their creative freedom, but also gave them a valuable experience of reusing material. Going green!

Woodford County High School signed up to start PLTW pre engineering program in Fall 2010.

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:18:26 +0000

Jan 11, 2010 – Woodford county high school WHCS) is planning to start PLTW pre engineering prgram in fall 2010. WCHS has a robotics club, led byDoug Klein, that participated in the recent Robotics competition organized by Newton’s Attic. Mr. Klein has taught IED and POE in Lawrence Co HS prior to coming to WCHS. Read press release from Woodford Sun below:

WHCS Press Release1

WHCS Press Release2

PLTW information session at WKY TEA meeting

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:22:26 +0000

Dec 11, 2009 – Dianne Leveridge provided an information session and status update about PLTW to the educators at the Western Kentucky Technical Educators Association (WKY TEA) meeting on Dec 11, Monday, night at Madisonville North Hopkins High School.

Scott Co. High School Boat Race

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:22:55 +0000

Dec 3, 2009 – Scott County High School PLTW Engineering students participated in a boat race, with their PLTW project boats, at the Pavilion in Georgetown, KY.

For their final project, Jean Porter’s Ninth Grade block class of Introduction to Engineering Design chose to design and build single-person boats made out of only cardboard, duct tape, and deck sealant. Using the 12-step engineering design process, students researched the history of great naval disasters to learn what NOT to do, the hydro-dynamic principles for what TO do, and Archimedes Principle to anticipate their design outcomes. They built and tested scale models, mathematical models, and computer models of their boats before building their full-scale final designs. Today, they put their boats in the water and raced them across the pool at the Pavilion in Georgetown.