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title: School Requires Freshmen to Take Engineering Courses | PLTW
description: May 18, 2011St. Joan Antida, an all-girls school in Milwaukee, is now requiring all ninth-graders take a PLTW engineering course. Helping the program are…
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# [School Requires Freshmen to Take Engineering Courses | PLTW](https://www.pltw.org/about/news/all-girls-school-requires-all-freshmen-to-take-engineering-course)

 Written by [PLTW](https://www.pltw.org/about/news/author/pltw) | May 18, 2011

May 18, 2011 St. Joan Antida, an all-girls school in Milwaukee, is now requiring all ninth-graders take a PLTW engineering course. Helping the program are STEM professionals and Milwaukee School of Engineering students who visit the classrooms and act as mentors. [Read more ](http://www.wisn.com/New-Program-Aims-To-Interest-Girls-In-Engineering/8049498)

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