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

Overall, I am pleased that PLTW is moving away from the Labview-based Lego Mindstorms equipment and towards a C-based programming system as this is more representative of 'real-world' programming (at least as seen in electronic product development - people on the factory floor and machine builders primarily use 'Ladder diagram' PLCs when programming machines).A C-based programming system should allow the students to build more powerful and complex systems - and will also 'help' them learn about debugging.

The really neat part about this is that by having the Inventor models for the components already done, it will be easy for students to 'build' their robot/machine in inventor and simulate the mechanics to make sure they work properly, then actually build and program the machine.

Don Divelbiss