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Project Lead The Way
PLTW is a pre-engineering program that provides free curriculum and support to high schools and middle schools nationwide to help students interested in engineering make the transition into college and university engineering programs. Currently serving 37 states, PLTW's primary focus is workforce development. PLTW also provides teacher training through summer training institutes and ongoing professional development in conjunction with state affiliate colleges and universities.

Project Lead the Way Ohio
PLTW is a pre-engineering program that provides free curriculum and support to high schools nationwide to help students interested in engineering make the transition into college and university engineering programs. This website acts as an information resource for Ohio educators either participating in or considering participation in Project Lead the Way (PLTW).

BattleBots IQ
BattleBots IQ (BBIQ) is an educational program created by the producers of the wildly successful BattleBots television series. Check out what you get with the BattleBots IQ High School Curriculum.

BEST Robotics, Inc.
Find information and links for competitions and educational materials for high school and middle school.

Botball Educations Robotics Program
Find information and links for competitions and educational materials for high school and middle school.

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Engineering Curriculum
The Robotics Academy is committed to using robotics to excite children about science and technology and to help create a more technologically literate society. This website offers curriculum, teacher training and equipment.

Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical Mechanical Manufacturing Systems
One of the primary missions of the Center for Nanoscale
Chemical-Electrical Mechanical Manufacturing Systems is to develop a diverse workforce of educators, scientists, engineers, and practitioners to advance nano-manufacturing technology in the United States and around the world.

Engineer Your Life
A guide to engineering for high school girls.

Engineering Pathway
We invite you to Learn, Connect, and Create with high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology for use by K-12 and university educators and students.

EPICS
EPICS teams undergraduates to design, build, and deploy real systems to solve engineering-based problems for local community service and education organizations.

FIRST Robotics and LEGO League
Find information and links for competitions and educational materials for high school, middle school and elementary grades.

The Ford Partnership for Advanced Studies (Ford Pas)
Ford PAS is an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum and program that provides students with content knowledge and skills necessary for future success in such areas as business, economics, engineering, and technology. The inquiry and project-based program offers a series of modules that links learning in traditional academic subjects with the challenges students will face in post-secondary education, along with the expectations of the workplace they will face as adults. These links are forged through community-wide, cooperative efforts and partnerships that join local high schools, colleges and universities with businesses.

GirlStart
Girlstart is a non-profit organization created to empower girls to excel in math, science, and technology. Founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas, Girlstart has quickly established itself as a best-case practices leader in empowering, educating, and motivating girls to enjoy and become more proficient in math, science and technology.

The Infinity Project
The Infinity Project is a national high school and early college math and science-based engineering and technology education initiative that helps educators deliver a maximum of engineering exposure with a minimum of training, expense and time. Created to help students see the real value of math and science and its varied applications to high tech engineering.

Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)
JETS is an organization established to increase awareness of and interest in engineering and technology-based careers and seeks to increase college enrollment in these careers. Their focus is primarily on secondary schools.

Materials Science and Technology (MST) Online
The Materials Science and Technology (MST) online page is sponsored by the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Langley Research Center (LaRC) and Norfolk State University (NSU). MST Online provides the user with a wide range of useful educational resources in math, science, engineering, and technology.

TEAMS
TEAMS is not a straight math competition. TEAMS involves mathematical understanding and science reasoning, as well as creativity and analytical and writing skills… much like the work of real engineers!
This resource is recommended by the SME-EF.

TekBots
The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) is making a fundamental change in the way we teach engineering concepts to students. We're innovating teaching and learning by energizing the curriculum with exciting, hands-on platforms for learning.® Our aim is to put the fun and excitement into EECS and thus retain and inspire interest among students in engineering. Unique to Oregon State and seed-funded by Tektronix, this program helps students understand how class content is interconnected. It also gives them hands on experience in applying theoretical concepts to their robots, turning theories into realities.

TryEngineering - Manufacturing Engineering
TryEngineering.org is a resource for students (ages 8-18), their parents, their teachers and their school counselors. This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers with hopes hope it will help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be made part of their future.

UNITE
The UNITE program is targeted toward high school students and helps prepare them for college through summer classes. Through academic classes, hands-on activities, and team-based learning, the students explore the connections between math and science and real world applications.