Project Based Learning
The Women In Technology (WIT) program offers selected students an opportunity to participate in an engineering design project with engineers from among a group of participating local industries. This initiative, Project-Based Learning program, was developed for the purpose of introducing and supporting females in non-traditional careers and has been continuous since its inception in the 1997-98 school year.
Each year, engineers from industry present an engineering problem to the students. Working as facilitators, the engineers guide the students through brainstorming, design and assembly phases to complete and present to industry a workable solution to the problem.
Students are chosen from among several skill areas, including science, mathematics, and information technology, and trade shops including science, mathematics, information technnology. electrical, machining, electronics and drafting. Students are selected based on their skills in the above listed areas, deportment and general participation in the learning process.
The Women In Technology Project-Based Learning program has been the recipient of several national awards, including the Caterpillar Exemplary Worksite, the Bellwether, WEPAN (Women Engineering Programs and Advocates Network) and the ACTE (Association for Career and Technology Education).
Each year, engineers from industry present an engineering problem to the students. Working as facilitators, the engineers guide the students through brainstorming, design and assembly phases to complete and present to industry a workable solution to the problem.
Students are chosen from among several skill areas, including science, mathematics, and information technology, and trade shops including science, mathematics, information technnology. electrical, machining, electronics and drafting. Students are selected based on their skills in the above listed areas, deportment and general participation in the learning process.
The Women In Technology Project-Based Learning program has been the recipient of several national awards, including the Caterpillar Exemplary Worksite, the Bellwether, WEPAN (Women Engineering Programs and Advocates Network) and the ACTE (Association for Career and Technology Education).