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 Fairmont High School Career Tech students win first place in the Ohio Real World Design Challenge 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 Dover Middle School participates in PLTW National Innovation Summit UD engineering student to speak at National Innovation Summit Scholarships Offered for Corrosion Engineering Program Bellbrook makes Newsweek's Best High Schools list Bellbrook students study hybrid car PLTW OHIO Sweeps Design Competition; Winners to Compete Nationally Timken Seniors Display at PLTW National Symposium Centerville High School takes 1st and 2nd in the DTMA Bots Competition Lorain County JVS students complete engineering internship at NASA Polaris Robotics and Automation Technology Team Takes 2nd Place at SkillsUSA Nationals

Preparing for Provisional Certification Site Visit

1. You will be notified via email by the State Affiliate and asked to work out a date for the visit.
2. Once you have an appointment for a visit, you will receive an email from PLTW Ohio confirming the appointment. Attached to this email, you will find the Ohio Cover Sheet; please complete it and email it back to patricia.marshall@sinclair.edu
3. Go to http://www.pltw.org/program-support/program-support and read the documents concerning certification.
4. Complete and submit the self assessment. (Certification Document 2)
   Click here to download the Engineering Self Assessment
   Click here to download the Biomedical Sciences Self Assessment
5. Save a copy of the completed self assessment (Certification Document 2), and email as an attachment to patricia.marshall@sinclair.edu.
   
6. Print out a copy of the Site Visit Guide (Certification Document 8) both to use as a rubric and to assemble documents you will need to show the visiting team. We will use the Guide to formulate our questions and ask to see the documents listed below. This is a PROVISIONAL visit, so you may not yet have available all the documents called for. Please provide all that you have.

Documents:

• Additional copies of cover sheet and self assessment
• Teacher Certificate(s) of Completion for courses taught
  
• Counselor Certificate of Completion for counselor conference
  
• List of Advisory Council members
  
• Minutes of last 2 Advisory Council meetings (if available)
  
• List of any internships offered
  
• Ten randomly picked PLTW student schedules
  
• At least three student portfolios
  
• Pathway showing course implementation and how courses are scheduled
  
• Copies of any local articulation agreement(s) with post-secondary institutions