Project Lead The Way (PLTW) prepares students to be the most innovative and productive leaders

2. What is Project Lead The Way? • Project Lead The Way (PLTW) prepares students to be the mostinnovative and productive leaders • inScience, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) • and to make • meaningful, pioneering contributions to our world. • Through an engaging, hands-on curriculum, PLTW encourages the development of: • problem-solving skills • critical thinking • creative and innovative reasoning • a love of learning

3. (Post) Lancaster High School 2009 Lancaster Graduates • 57% - Attended 4 year schools • 30% - Attended 2 year schools Overall Lancaster PLTW Graduates • 91% - Attended 4 year schools • 7% - Attended 2 year schools • 2% - Entered the military

4. Lancaster PLTW High School Results 98% of PLTW students entered college 2% entered Military

5. Overall Results 99% of Lancaster PLTW graduates have finished or are still in college. 74% of PLTW students entered into an engineering/technology college curriculum. 95% of those students that initially entered a college engineering/technical program are still enrolled in a college engineering/technical program.

6. Overall Results • 50% of U.S. engineering students drop out. (According to Penn State) • Only 5% of Lancaster PLTW students who enter an engineering/technical college program have transferred to other programs. That’s a 95% retention. • According to the Department of Education figures for all college students, 2000 through 2006, 30% leave in the first year, and an astonishing 50% never graduate. • 99% of Lancaster PLTW students that entered college are still attending or have graduated.

7. Post College Results • 100% of the Lancaster High School PLTW graduates who have graduated college are employed in an engineering or technical field.

8. From Harvey Stenger Dean of Engineering at UB “Each year approximately 10 to 15 of your PLTW students attend UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as freshmen. They are some of our best engineering students, they have entrance scores significantly higher than our other students, and they have higher retention and graduation rates. In recognition of your program’s excellence we have started a scholarship program this year and will award two $500 scholarships to the best PLTW students who plan to attend UB.”

9. Did You Know? • One of our PLTW Graduates worked on the next Mars Lander. • One of our PLTW Graduates worked on the Intel Quad Core Processor. • One of our PLTW Graduates designs server software for HP. • One of our PLTW Graduates is a Naval Aviator. • One of our PLTW Graduates worked on NASA’s Aries 1 rocket.

10. Bio Tech and UB/RIT • This is the second year that we introduced the new PLTW Bio-Tech course. This course will have a partnership with the Bio Engineering program at UB and RIT. This class allows students to explore a field of engineering with an explosive job demand. • Within this, students will study:- Forensics- Cardiovascular Engineering - Genetic Engineering - And much more.

11. How the Data was collected? • 128 of 250 Lancaster PLTW graduates responded. That’s a sample rate of over 50%. • Email and Facebook were used to make the contacts. • The sample years covered Lancaster PLTW students graduating high school from 2002 to 2009.

12. 2010 PLTW Graduates Other includes: Criminal Justice Physical Therapy Pharmacy Business 7 20 4 29 students went to a 4yr college 2 students went to a 2yr college

13. Lancaster Technology Education produces: • Mechanical Engineers • Electricians • Aerospace Engineers • Plumbers • Software Engineers • Architects • Biochemists • Graphic Designers • Media Specialists • Structural Engineers • Success Stories!