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"When we started this maybe one kid said they wanted to
be an engineer and they really didn't know what it was," explains Melinda
Wyant Jansen, a school counselor at Escuela Vieau in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Jansen, who also serves as the bilingual academy's liaison to Rockwell Automation,
is pleased with the success of Project Lead the Way (PLTW), a national science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program. "Now we have about 25 to
30 kids out of our class who have said 'I'd like to be an engineer'."
As the school's PLTW partner, Rockwell regularly sends
employees and executives to Escuela Vieau to make engineering a reality instead
of an abstraction. PLTW students are drawn from the school's middle school
grades and routinely encouraged by principal Armando Dominguez, a former
veterinarian. Starting this year, Vieau is also testing a new program called
Engineering is Elementary among its fourth and fifth graders. With Rockwell as
its partner, the school will eventually extend the program back to the first
grade.
Would your employer let you take engineering
outside the office and into the classroom?
Source: OnMilwaukee.com
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