For more information about Illinois Project Lead the Way, contact:

Brenda Pacey

Illinois PLTW Affiliate Director
University Outreach and Public Service
807 S. Wright Street,

Suite 370, MC-307
Champaign , IL 61820
(217) 244-5217
(217) 244-3173 fax
bpacey@uillinois.edu

Steve Parrott

Illinois PLTW State Leader
Illinois State Board of Education
100 North First Street
Springfield, IL. 62777
(217)782-4620
(217) 782-0710 fax
sparrott@isbe.net

*Online Registration for 2008 University of Illinois Summer Training Institute opens March 15, 2008 (more)

*March 18, 2008 Illinois New School Orientation Session scheduled for administrators (more)

*Illinois Autodesk educational vendor IMAGINIT Technologies offers February/March inventor software half-day introductory workshops for new schools, and May/June one-day overview sessions for teachers preparing for their first STI training. (more)

*Illinois Autodesk educational vendor MasterGraphics offers Spring/Summer Software training sessions for teachers. (more)

*New online national PLTW Certification assessment documents are now available. Illinois schools shoudl review updated state and national planning step requirements (click here) and contact Illinois PLTW Affiliate Director Brenda Pacey to schedule onsite visits.

*New 2007 Southern Research Education Board (SREB) High Schools That Work research findings show that PLTW students are more actively engaged in meaningful and challenging literacy, numeracy, and science activities than other HSTW student. (more)

*More than 180 attended this year's Illinois PLTW Counselors, Administrators, and Teachers Conference in Peoria on October 18, 2007. (more)

Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is a national not-for-profit organization established to help solve the country’s high-tech staffing shortage by increasing the number, quality, and diversity of engineers graduating from United States educational systems. Aimed at middle and high schools, PLTW’s pre-engineering curriculum, software, and professional development programs can help forge new generations of engineers by offering students the chance to find out if engineering is the career for them. More than 1300 schools in 45 states offer PLTW courses.

The University of Illinois, Bradley University, the Illinois State Board of Education, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity have joined forces to bring Project Lead the Way to schools in Illinois.