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2008

Summer 2008

Highlights

• PLTW Focuses on Partnerships
• SME-EF & 3M Honor Teachers
• Purdue Alumni Gathering
  

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Winter 2008

Highlights

• Reports Give Project Lead The Way High Marks
• PLTW: Paying Off in College
• Biomedical Sciences Program Makes Its Debut
• A Bumper Year for Media Coverage
  

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2007

Spring 2007

Highlights

• Creating Urban Academies of Engineering
• PLTW Premieres New Website and DVD
• Forging the Innovation Generation
• Yearbook Celebrates PLTW’s
• Highlights from 2005–06 TrueOutcomes assessment
• Reinventing Agricultural Education
  

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Winter 2007

Highlights

• Focus on STEM's Future
• Spanish Language Translations of PLTW Materials Published
• Students Need Both Rigor and Relevance
• Liebich Wins Social Entrepreneurship Award
• PLTW: Booming in Kansas City
• PLTW Presented at National Academies' Convocation
  

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2006

Fall 2006

Highlights

• An Initiative That Is Working
• Bayer Best Practice
• Opportunities in Biomedical Sciences
• Partnership Promotes Diversity
• PLTW Inventors in Tennessee and New York
• Autodesk Enters Exclusive PLTW Pact

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Summer 2006

Highlights

• Biomedical Sciences Boom
• PLTW to Publish Textbook Series
• Honoring Our Roots
• PLTW Student Win Inventors Competition
• Student Power
• PLTW School Helps Katrina Students

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Spring 2006

Highlights

• PLTW Influences National Policy Makers
• PLTW and SME Foundation Team-up
• State Leaders and Affiliate Directors Meet
• Student Spotlight: Brent Singleton
• Counselors Kit Now Available

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2005

Winter 2005

Highlights

• Results from PLTW performance assessment
• Success with the PLTW method
• Beyond the primary sciences
• Student Spotlight: Janelle Crockett
• Looking Ahead

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Fall 2005

Highlights

• Record setting summer training
• Community Colleges add PLTW
• Organizing professional development
• Student Spotlight: Brianna O'Dell
• Smart Girls Learn About Super Jobs

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Spring 2005

Highlights

• PLTW Goes International
• Congress learns about PLTW
• Washington Partnership Excels
• Assessing K-12 Engineering Programs
• Florida Colleges Create Pathway to Engineering Degree

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