Hilliard Davidson High School girls engineering class on PLTW national website to promote Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Fairmont HS students win merit award at the national Real World Design Challenge Toledo Technology Academy wins gold and silver at SkillsUSA Ohio Olmsted Falls team takes first place at SkillsUSA Ohio Kelly Woodruff adds 'a lot of spirit' to Northwestern High School PLTW teams win trip to Anaheim Chaminade Julienne Announces Plans to Open CJ STEMM Center 2013 Engineers Day at Sinclair Community College Bellbrook PLTW students: They've been working on the railroad Kettering Fairmont wins State Real World Design Challenge for third year in a row Bridging the Engineering Gender Gap: Schools work to introduce more girls to engineering Kettering Fairmont PLTW Program selected as an SME PRIME site PLTW Ohio 2011 Fall Conference Highlights Tri-Rivers Career Center competes in TRECA Vex Gateway Robotics Qualifier Sinclair College Credit form now online! Biomedical Sciences Training comes to Ohio! Logan High School PLTW students in the news PLTW National changes to Program Implementation and Ohio's response The Change to Vex Equipment from an Industry Perspective Oakwood High School gets new PLTW science lab

About Project Lead The Way Ohio

Project Lead the Way is a nationwide non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of science and technology graduates in the United States. 

PLTWOhio.org provides Ohio educators and counselors with local information about PLTW activity, keeps you informed about professional development opportunities, and provides a networking tool to link you with other Ohio educators and counselors in the PLTW network.

We hope that this website provides you with the resources you need to improve and grow as a Project Lead the Way educator.

If you are not currently an Ohio PLTW educator, please visit www.pltw.org for further information on Project Lead the Way.

PLTW Ohio is housed at the PLTW Ohio Affiliate office at Sinclair Community College in downtown Dayton, Ohio.  The Ohio affiliate took over local operation of the Ohio programs in February of 2004, when there were only 13 programs in existence in the state.  Numbers have gone up exponentially since then, with more schools coming on board every day.  Ohio has 343 registered programs in pre-engineering, biomedical sciences, and at the middle school level and that number grows every day.

Teachers from all over the state and from at least twelve other states have taken training here at Sinclair’s Summer Training Institute, which has grown from offering just 2 classes which trained 25 teachers in the summer of 2004 to offering 12 sections of seven different classes in 2011,  training a total of 133 teachers in pre-engineering courses.  

The PLTWO operation consists of the State Affiliate, the Ohio Department of Education, and PLTW National.  Information about where to call about various questions as well as tips for new programs just implementing PLTW courses are available elsewhere on this website. 

Project Lead the Way currently offers two strands at the High School level, Pre-Engineering and Biomedical Science.  Pre-engineering is well-established in Ohio, and Biomedical is growing quickly.  In addition to the two strands, a third “strand” is Gateway to Technology (GTT) for middle school students in grades 6-8.  GTT offers middle schools a series of seven modules focused on increasing enrollment in high school PLTW pre-engineering programs by helping younger students gain an understanding of what an engineer does.