Bringing Real-World Learning to PreK-12 Classrooms

A transformative learning experience for both students and teachers. Create lasting impacts in the classroom from preschool through graduation and beyond.

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Reinventing the Classroom Experience

Project Lead The Way provides transformative learning experiences for PreK-12 students and teachers across the U.S. We create an engaging, hands-on classroom environment and empower students to develop in-demand knowledge and skills they need to thrive. Our professional development for teachers provides training, resources, and support to engage students in real-world learning.

Our pathways in computer science, engineering, and biomedical science engage students in hands-on activities, projects, and problems; empower them to solve real-world challenges; and inspire them to reimagine how they see themselves.

PLTW Launch (PreK-5)

taps into students’ exploratory nature, engages them in learning that feels like play, and encourages them to keep discovering through activities like designing a car safety belt or building digital animations.

PLTW Gateway (6-8)

illuminates the range of paths and possibilities students can look forward to in high school and beyond through challenges like designing a therapeutic toy for a child with cerebral palsy, cleaning up an oil spill, or solving a fictional crime.

PLTW Computer Science (9-12)

transforms students into builders of tech by engaging them in real-world activities like creating an online art portal or using automation to process and analyze DNA-sequence data.

PLTW Engineering (9-12)

empowers students to engage in design thinking as they collaborate on real-world projects like working with a client to design a home, programming electronic devices or robotic arms, or exploring algae as a biofuel source.

PLTW Biomedical Science (9-12)

allows students to see themselves in the roles of biomedical science professionals as they solve real-world challenges, such as preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease and investigating the death of a fictional person.

Why hands-on, real-world learning?

A recent study shows PLTW students outperform their peers in school, are better prepared for post-secondary studies, and are more likely to consider STEM careers, compared to their non-PLTW peers. Students find PLTW programs relevant, inspiring, engaging, and foundational to their future success.

See Our Impact

It's almost impossible to put it into words how much Project Lead The Way has contributed to who I am and who I want to be. It's immediately, from day one, 100 percent different from anything you expect to experience. We had a multitude of opportunities to experience and to see and to take in what biomed really is, as a whole.

- Kelsie O’Brien, PLTW Biomedical Science Alumna United States Air Force Academy

As a teacher, I have been totally reinvigorated by this curriculum. One of the best things for me is seeing just how much kids can do when you challenge them to do it. I have no doubt that the kids who go through this program are better off when they get to college and when they get to jobs because they know how to do things for themselves. They have been challenged – they know how to step up and to take different pieces and parts, put them together, and make something new.

- Becky Howell, PLTW Biomedical Science Master Teacher Lexington Richland School District No 5 | Columbia, South Carolina

15,600+ programs in 12,400+ schools

Millions of students

Schools in all 50 states, D.C., and U.S. territories

127,200+ teacher credentials earned

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Providing all students with access to real-world, applied learning experiences that empower them to gain the skills they need to thrive in college, career, and beyond.

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