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MICUA Matters Fall 2008
Two other MICUA institutions-Johns Hopkins University and Capitol College-are also affiliated with Project Lead The Way. "Project Lead the Way is especially sensitive to minority and women's issues, just as we are here at Capitol," says John Ryan, a Capitol professor of digital electronics who teaches for PLTW. "We want to encourage women; for example, we don't want girls to opt out of an opportunity in engineering because they are the only female in a classroom full of males." |
A national training program for high school science teachers
took place at Stevenson University's Greenspring campus in July as part of
Project Lead The Way (PLTW), an initiative which promotes pre-engineering and
biomedical science courses for middle and high school students. Stevenson
(formerly Villa Julie College) became Maryland's university affiliate for
Project Lead The Way in 2007 when the Maryland State Department of Education
awarded the University a biomedical sciences affiliate grant. The University is
one of only two institutions in the nation to offer teacher training in the
biomedical sciences for the initiative.